Sentence examples for engineer a revolution from inspiring English sources

"Achebe lampooned, in a prophetic way, the post-independence crop of elites – and the present leadership – who, rather than engineer a revolution in the emergent modern African states we are in, allowed us to be sucked in by the vortex of neo-colonial exploitation and global consumerism with the result that Africa has been subjugated into an web of almost permanent underdevelopment".

Niklaus Wirth engineered a revolution in programming methods, but he gets only one page.

The U.S., refusing to pay the higher-than-expected fees, "engineered a revolution" in Colombia.

"The big question is whether Europe can engineer a financial revolution without producing a backlash against it.

Now, comes two waves of "Show Trials," with the regime investing tremendous effort and prestige in trying 100 democracy protesters, accused of the sin (nowhere in the Iranian Penal Code) of trying to engineer "a velvet revolution".

Pet-lovers (many of whom now prefer the term "animal companion") have engineered a quiet revolution in the law to allow, in effect, nonhumans to inherit and spend money.

The main activity has been in the biodiesel sector partly because diesel is the dominant fuel sector in Argentina, and partly because the country had already engineered a soy revolution over the past 15 years, becoming the world's largest exporter of soy oil and soy meal.

"The gulf countries are afraid of the influence of our revolution on their countries, so they want to engineer a political solution," he said.

Sundar Pichai, Google's Indian-born CEO, has quietly and determinedly engineered a little-reported revolution at Google.

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While the alternative to Yucca, near here, is not really Central Park, the federal emphasis on engineered safety features represents a revolution in thinking.