Sentence examples for ideological upheaval from inspiring English sources

It is one measure of the ideological upheaval in Russian politics that he argues that the Communist Party is now the party of business.

The wake of the social and ideological upheaval of the Great Depression pushed Wright's ostensible subjects -- the brutalities of Jim Crow in the South, the deprivations of urban black life in the North -- into the national consciousness.

Eventually, after much ideological upheaval, we rejected the old, statist approach we had grown up with, and came up with a new constitution which for the first time included the "s" word and stated that we were a "democratic socialist party … [that] believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone".

But the novel also contains pertinent references to the huge ideological upheaval of the Cultural Revolution — a subject that's never far from the surface in this intelligent series — along with many poignant hints that once it's lost, a country's cultural identity can never be restored.

In the professor's analysis the president's worldview is the product of the country's long history of extending democracy to disenfranchised groups, as well as the specific ideological upheavals that struck campuses in the 1980s and 1990s.

Like Glasgow and Belfast, it has a history of radicalism, political upheaval and ideological divides.

Most readers will be familiar with the tectonic ideological stresses that have caused such visible upheaval in the field today: the repudiation of many Freudian tenets, the rise and undeniable success of new medications to treat the most intractable forms of mental illness and the more impersonal, hurried approach that often comes with the dispensing of drugs.

But Mr. Kennedy's proposals on civil rights, among other issues, met with strong resistance from Congressional conservatives, and not long after that, baby boom upheavals created the legacy of ideological bitterness that Mr. Obama now seeks to overcome.

This approach performs an ideological function, in that it discursively integrates the current upheaval into a pre-existing approved ideological narrative – the dictatorships of the Middle East are merely the latest in a long line of tyrannies to have been undermined by the relentless march of progress and liberal democracy.

Ministers have sometimes given the impression that they like upheaval for the sake of it, or because it fits their ideological fixation with a smaller state.

It's also worth noting that, in 1968, Moscow was reacting to the "threat" of the Prague Spring and to ideological liberalization in Eastern Europe; in 1979, the Kremlin leadership was reacting to the upheavals in Kabul.