The phrase "public upheaval" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a widespread and often chaotic disturbance or disruption among the general population. Example: The government's decision to raise taxes caused widespread public upheaval and protests across the country.
Is it not too pat, fusing the personal crisis with a public upheaval and wringing meaning out of mere coincidence?
But she cautioned that even massive public upheaval results in only incremental change.
Detailing direct action will limit public upheaval and reduce your exposure.
However, after the bill was killed, public upheaval caused Roberts to introduce a new bill, this time in the House, which resolved the same issue.
In On Liberty, Shami Chakrabarti presented a pantheon of heroes and freedom-thwarting villains, most notably former British prime minister Tony Blair, in the post-9/11 world (including the July 7 , 2005 attacks in London) amid recollections of personal and public upheavals.
He told the AP that when he looks back on his work he thinks of it "as one writer's shifting response to the challenges and public upheavals of the last 60 or 70 years".
The twin trends -- rising deaths and declining births -- are both rooted in the social and public-health upheavals that have swept the nation since the Soviet Union entered its death throes in 1991.
Cipfa chief executive Rob Whiteman, said it was "abundantly clear" that decoupling the British state from the EU would cause tremendous upheaval for public services for many years.
Mr. Kerry's advisers argued that the lessons of 1996 no longer applied at a time of quick shifts in public opinion and international upheaval, and they disputed the wisdom of the Bush advertising campaign.
WHO can resist the lure of an autobiography that asks at the start, "Don't memoirs allow writers to keep from revealing all they know?" The bait is all the more tempting when the author is a descendant of two of the most prominent families in New York's cultural seas and the longtime president of a major museum that recently was embroiled in bitter public controversy and internal upheaval.
The upheaval in public markets since Lehman Brothers' collapse is only starting to be reflected by private equity partnerships, as markdowns from 2008 start to be reflected widely by buyout and real estate opportunity portfolios.
