Sentence examples for age of upheaval from inspiring English sources

"This age of upheaval, dislocation and migration offers extraordinary and unprecedented opportunities for human reinvention," she said via e-mail.

That scene, which comes from "Martin Luther: Rebel in an Age of Upheaval" (Oxford), by the German historian Heinz Schilling, seems to me impossible to improve upon as a portrait of what it must have been like for Luther to have a little boy, and for a little boy to have Luther as a father.

What is permanent in this age of upheavals is hard to make out, but I am reluctant to grant moods their second papers.

At age 38, he will take charge of one of the best-known franchises in environmentalism after years of upheaval in the group.

In an age of campus upheavals, witness the resignation of the two top officials of the University of Missouri, who were pressured to leave after alleged insensitivity to racial and ethnic diversity, one wonders if otherwise noble desires for ending discrimination of all kinds in regard to race, ethnicity, sexual gender and sexual preferences are getting out of hand.

More important, a wave of upheaval could uproot valuable allies.

Manuel Muñiz has argued that the widespread displacement of workers following the first Industrial Revolution heralded an age of unprecedented political upheaval across North America and Europe.

Now we might be approaching another age of great technological upheaval, as stem cells and gene therapy offer the potential to extend lives to unprecedented lengths.

She said his pacifism, his willingness to engage such major issues of his time as the atomic bomb, his towering intellectual abilities and his down-to-earth manner combined to make him an attractive figure in an age of war and upheaval.

Sports Illustrated called it "The Age of Audacity," a time of upheaval when outspoken athletes like Namath, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Bill Russell spoke out, and the Hendrix version of "All Along the Watchtower" was playing in the background.

During an age of social and technological upheaval Republicans remain mired in an old world way of thinking that -- despite president Obama's many shortcomings -- will be their political downfall.