Sentence examples for devastating upheaval from inspiring English sources

Rather, it is Christianity's own fundamental ambiguities — torn between a picture of God as both present and absent from the temporal realm, an ambivalence powerfully represented by the paradoxes of the Trinity — that made it "uniquely unstable," subject to a plurality of interpretations that became institutionalized in sectarianism, and hence to several centuries' worth of devastating upheaval.

Yet suppressing popular demands produces temporary stability at the cost of occasional devastating upheavals.

How close is the world to devastating climate upheaval?

The other team -- which includes Bono and the Edge of U2 -- creates "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," which limped through months of devastating reviews, creative upheaval and aerial acrobatics that went scarily wrong on a few occasions, and finally reached opening night last Tuesday.What made the difference between boffo success and brutal struggles?

Zimbabwe More than a decade of political chaos, economic upheaval and devastating human rights conditions have kept visitors away from this once thriving tourist magnet.

We may, on this little island, have mostly avoided for centuries the horrors of invasion, bloody revolution, civil war, social upheaval and devastating natural disaster, but now we pay the price in the sight of Cameron at pseudo-sexual play.

They lived in towns and communities devastated by economic upheaval.

Global markets have been battered this year by the debt crisis, upheaval in the Middle East, a devastating Japanese earthquake and tsunami as well as a struggling U.S. economy.

In fact, the emotional upheaval caused by weight loss can be devastating.

But the upheaval had devastated the countryside.

These are sorely needed, highly skilled jobs in a sparsely populated state whose industrial base was devastated by the economic upheaval that accompanied reunification in 1990.