The word
"tumult" means a state of noisy confusion or disorder. It describes a loud, chaotic situation where there is a lot of commotion and disturbance.
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Over time, our personal efficiency can suffer because we have allowed whatever kind of
tumult of daily life affecting us to become normal.
The commercial real estate industry has seen its share of
tumult in recent years.
After a year of
tumult at the top, the Naperville Park District hopes to have a new leader in place by mid-August.
Their decaying home is a strong metaphor for the mother's own weak state of health, and the series seeks to expose the emotional
tumult with its bare, stripped back images.
Former New York City mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg announced a $ 200 million plan aiming to back inventive policies in American cities despite
political tumult in Washington.
Heastie was able to rise
amid tumult created by that year's Democratic primary election.
ALBANY — The capital was thrown into familiar
tumult on Monday as yet another of the state's leaders fell from grace: Dean G. Skelos, the majority leader of the New York State Senate, stepped down from his leadership post.
Suddenly Teddy's routine life is thrown
into tumult as he tries to track a killer - against his boss's wishes - while balancing his complicated family life, three other jobs, and the colorful characters populating the island around him.
Given Nina's new role, and the current
tumult around charter schooling, I thought it timely to sit down and chat with her about the gig.
The reversal comes after days of
tumult as angry Coinbase customers demanded to know why the company had not released their new currency, called Bitcoin Cash, to them.
The earnings report followed weeks of
tumult for Facebook, after a controversy erupted last month when The New York Times and other news outlets reported that millions of Facebook users» private information had been harvested by Cambridge Analytica, a political firm with ties to the Trump campaign.
He secretly releases it first to the New York Times, leaving the Washington Post - going
through tumult of its own as the company was getting ready to go public while also being led by an untested female publisher, Katherine Graham (Streep)- flat - footed.
(CNN)-- For Christians in countries thrown into
tumult by the Arab Spring revolutions, Easter celebrations may prove dangerous.
Heastie, however, is perhaps best known in political circles for leading a multiethnic coalition — dubbed the Rainbow Rebels — that ousted Assemblyman Jose Rivera as leader of the Bronx Democratic Party in 2008, ending what had been years of
tumult within the organization.
Dissecting the
economic tumult of the past few years has offered full - time employment to a legion of journalists, economists, analysts and academics.
Then there was great
tumult among the people, and they cried out «Take him away» and he was led away to prison.
None of the figures mentioned so far have directly addressed the churches» various
tumults over homosexuality in recent years.
The demise of Health Republic Insurance of New York has
created tumult for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and headaches for the state's other insurance companies.
The hotel is in Jaipur, with its palaces and abundant commerce and a
constant tumult on the streets.
Trader bonuses at Citigroup Inc will be down 5 percent to 10 percent compared with 2013, after
market tumult in the last two weeks of the year hurt revenue, Reuters reported last week.
In the
cultural tumult of modern America, Eberstadt makes the New Atheism seem easy to mock.
As a gay Filipino American from a strict Catholic family, Ossorio was able to use Pollock's drips and anarchic energy to express his own
inner tumults in ways that were intimate but not explicit.
This
social tumult formed an opportune ground against which Agnetti pursued his deconstruction of language and power.
Well, it's a new school year and there is
much tumult in the world of public education.
The year's wonkiest story may have been its most important, and 2018 figures to offer more
tumult when it comes to North Carolina's class size crisis.
While this year has
seen tumult in the golf industry with Nike dropping its equipment business, Adidas putting TaylorMade up for sale and many big box golf retailers like Sports Authority and Golfsmith closing, Spieth remains optimistic.
Despite the
early tumult, Allaire and Neville found support.
Uber faced
further tumult last month when Susan Fowler, a former employee, wrote a public blog post detailing what she described as her experience being subjected to sexual harassment while having the company's human resources department ignore her complaints.
4) The Chris Kirby incident and the arrival of a true East Ramapo political movement — It's been no secret that the East Ramapo Central School District is
experiencing tumult for years, but 2013 marked the year that a full - fledged resistance to the private school domination of the board was launched by public school parents.
The point is ironically illustrated in a 1935 report of the Congregational Churches of Mexico that attempted to explain the continuing
tumult between church and state in that country.
Unlawful assembly of three or more people (or lawful assembly that due to its violence and
tumult becomes unlawful)
If you're a Fire Emblem fan who's starting to think all this real -
time tumult might not be your cup of tea, that's fair.
Judd hosted dinner parties and social gatherings, and had a genuine curiosity for new ideas and debate about the intersection of art, culture, history, and politics at a time of
great tumult and change in the United States and the world.
But if cities have historically been the locus of
such tumult, they experience today an unsettling of national citizenship, which promises unprecedented change.
It is Canada's well - managed banking sector that is most often cited for its resilience in the face of
global tumult.
Indeed, the top of the chain is beginning to suffer the
same tumult as the second and third tier programs.
Rory McIlroy took a breather from prepping for this week's Honda Classic by jumping into the
Twitter tumult Tiger Woods created when he went all Rory with his home video response to those who dared believe the 14 - time major winner could barely walk.
That ought to be an American birthright, and beyond the painful
tumult caused by Paladino's words still awaits, unanswered, the defining question:
Towles then uses this Trojan horse of a literary dreamboat, Count Rostov, to illuminate some 100 years of the ebbing of a lost Russian aristocracy, the
subsequent tumult of Soviet revolution, and the failure of that revolution to transform society for the better, even as everything — or almost everything — of his former life is stripped from him.
President Donald Trump's administration appears to have kicked up its
own tumult by instructing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to avoid certain words in its 2019 budget request.
Louise Bourgeois One of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Louise Bourgeois described her artistic practice as an attempt to work through
whatever tumult plagued her — psychologically, personally, or artistically.
Principals have gotten much less attention than teachers in the
current tumult, but improving the overall caliber of principals would do a great deal to drive progress.
More tumult came when Corse filed a motion for the return of works of art she made before 1980 from Ace Gallery, which had in 2013 filed a complicated bankruptcy case, as reported in the New York Times.
Now, imagine him sitting up there in the rain, with storm clouds rolling over, thunder pressing down, and the ominous flash of lightning a strobe in the
black tumult above.