Sentence examples for a social explosion from inspiring English sources

"It would create conditions of uncontrollable economic chaos and a social explosion".

"It would create conditions of uncontrolled economic chaos and a social explosion," he said.

Racism was a social explosion waiting to happen, and it did.

Here are the makings of a social explosion waiting to happen, Avishai says.

General Mendoza said he had acted to "avoid a social explosion".

Another sudden spike in unemployment could create a social explosion that could catch the authorities off guard.

But however difficult it is to confront Putin on human rights today, try to imagine what it will be like to discuss these issues a few years from now, when either the crackdown has become even more intense or the path of repression results in a real social explosion.

9. On April 9 , 1948 Gabriel García Márquez was caught up in the whirlwind of El Bogotazo, a bloody social explosion that followed the assassination of the socialist political leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.

"[Reactions] that could ignite a blind, violent social explosion".

In one poll yesterday for Challenges magazine, 66% people felt there was a risk of "social explosion" over the coming months.

This social explosion was an echo of similar riots that gripped France in 2005 following the deaths of two youths electrocuted while trying to hide from the police in the banlieue (as the economically-depressed, largely immigrant suburbs that ring France's glittering cities are called) of Clichy-sous-Bois.