Sentences with phrase «social upheaval»

After devastating famine in the late 1950s followed by social upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in the»60s and»70s, China turned to a more pragmatic approach to economic development when Deng Xiaoping ascended to power at the end of that period.

Mayakovsky initially worked on behalf of the Bolshevik Revolution, lending his talents to give voice to the Russian people at a time of great social upheaval and reconstruction.

But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property developer who is heavily invested in Bristol's housing boom, and he has everything to lose from social upheaval and the prospect of war.

He began exhibiting in the early 1990s — a time of political and social upheaval across West Africa.

The Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King along with the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations created social upheaval in America.

If this trend continues, it is a recipe for social upheaval and a mortal threat to the survival of the Nigerian state.Given that oil is volatile.

However, it seems to me that we should have had more humility as we faced the vast social upheavals within which communism was the agent of revolution.

The team points out that the period of intermarriage overlaps with a time of huge social upheavals in India, including the collapse of the ancient Indus civilization — which thrived on the Indian subcontinent between about 2600 B.C.E. and 1900 B.C.E. — as well as large - scale population movements and the rise of the Vedic religion, the predecessor of modern Hinduism.

The geography of his upbringing is important — growing up in the south during the 1960s, a period of immense social upheaval, has deeply informed the narrative content of his work.

Dennis Hopper re-invented the iconography of the lens to document social upheaval in the Western world and the emerging contemporary condition.

A Swiss - led group using tree - ring data to look at Central European summer climate patterns during roughly 2,500 years saw that periods of prolonged warming and of colder than usual spells coincided with social upheavals.

The Wake's patter brings us closer to the world of buccmaster and his contemporaries as they try to get their minds around the cataclysm of violent social upheaval and foreign domination.

Some plans allow for non medical evacuations that include social upheaval as a covered reason for evacuation, but it's important to understand your policy limits and exclusions.

Automation is currently more of a technical problem — but solving it will prompt serious social upheaval.

Europe is mired in a quagmire of financial bailouts, budget deficits and austerity measures, bleak circumstances that have already fostered social upheaval and are now ushering in political change.

Both Peter Schiff and Jim Rickards recommend a position in precious metals, and with their history of protecting wealth in times of extreme social upheaval, it is easy to understand why Rick Rule doesn't mind seeing a stable gold price.

The economic and social upheaval stemming from both the Great Depression and World War II forced the United States to seek out a source of inexpensive labor to meet its manpower needs in both agriculture and railway maintenance.

In the 1830s and 1840s, some Evangelicals turned to premilliennialism because it reinforced their desire to flee social upheaval while plotting out Jesus» second advent.

Um — although I know there is a lot of social upheaval there right now, since when did Spaniards become radical and hateful for opening businesses in the U.S.??

Still, I have seen this student in action for years — conquering a difficult project, experiencing an unsuccessful student council bid, or maneuvering social upheaval.

The legal scholar Julie E. Cohen points out the parallels with the era of industrialisation where transformations in technology and the accompanying social upheavals brought with them new threats to human freedom.

The group cautioned the government agencies and the media to be careful in future before carelessly broadcasting sensational information, so as not to become the cause of a violent national social upheaval by misled Nigerians who are already on edge and frustrated with the status quo during this recession.

When family members get along, or have numerous relatives to call on, they can shelter a child from the worst social upheavals in the outside world.

It is now time to deal with the problem here in America and abroad and it begins, not with a call for dictatorship or radical social upheaval and revolt, but with each of us buying locally, helping pass legislation that benefits and protects our nation's small farmers, and educating others to do the same.

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Divine Order is set in Switzerland in 1971 where, despite the worldwide social upheavals of the previous decade,... More

Such great social upheaval allows for the strange and unusual to emerge and a time of intense emotions can, to the writer of fiction, provide ample fodder for a compelling story, especially one concerning criminal acts and issues of guilt and innocence.

Urban Planning explores momentous social upheavals — the Civil Rights movement, gentrification, post-industrialization, white flight, the emptying of American cities, and the expansion of the suburbs — through a variety of media, including sculpture, drawing, photography, moving image, and installation.

Ranging from sleek, understated modernism to bold abstraction, this exhibition celebrates art and design from the 1960s — a time of both enormous social upheaval and extraordinary cultural creativity.

The episode, «explores art created amid social upheaval, including: the social practice of Andrea Bowers and Noe Gaytan, whose work engages with the struggle for wage equity and unionization».

Conceptual art appeared partly as an effect of broader social upheavals in the mid-60s and the beginning of the 70s.

As one of the UK's traditional art institutions in the UK it seems ironic, yet also progressive, for the Victoria & Albert Museum to stage what they claim to be the first exhibition to explore design as a means of aiding social upheaval.

This is a society in the midst of historic social upheaval.

There's been a lot of social upheaval since the presidential election outcome was announced last week.

In drastically rebelling against the previous conventions of the art world, these eccentric works mirror the full social upheaval proclaimed by William S. Burroughs in his 1961 anarchic novel, The Soft Machine, «Smash the control images.

Using traditional Song Dynasty landscape painting techniques, with mineral - based inks and watercolors on handmade paper, his paintings and scrolls often explore the effects of environmental engineering and the resulting social upheaval, as well as the repercussions of natural disasters: from the U.S. government's ineffectual response to Hurricane Katrina to the Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River.

Wood sought pictorially to fashion a world of harmony and prosperity that would answer America's need for reassurance at a time of economic and social upheaval occasioned by the Depression.

Nakahira and his colleagues questioned the process of photography and pushed the medium to reflect the rapid urban expansion and social upheaval sweeping across Japan.

In a time of significant social upheaval, as a legal practitioner I see my role as guiding my client through the maze of regulation and possible future conflict to enable them to achieve what they seek to happen now and in the future.

Non-medical evacuation, often referred to as political evacuation, is a travel insurance benefit that can assist travelers when emergency situations involving government or social upheaval threaten travelers» safety.