Sentence examples for moral ferment from inspiring English sources
In the 1930s, the Great Depression enabled Franklin Roosevelt to launch the New Deal and redefine the role of the federal government, he added, while in the 1960s, the assassination of John F. Kennedy and "the moral ferment of the civil rights movement" enabled Lyndon Johnson to enact his Great Society agenda, including Medicare, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
We can deduce that intellectual ferment about the moral obligations of molecular biology and genetics is taking place behind the scenes.
This stereotype evolved in the last 30 years to include hippies and others whose political, moral or medical consciousness was formed by the ferment of the 1960's.
As he says: "Dangerfield's story was one of political ferment and economic turmoil, of challenges to the moral order and rebellions against traditional gender roles, of Utopian socialism and Irish sectarianism all rooted, like the challenges of the early 1970s, in profound historical trends that no government could possibly control".
There is ferment aplenty.
Brazil has been in ferment.
