Meanwhile, the women's movement is grappling with ever-new problems as vast economic and social changes sweep the country while old mindsets steeped in patriarchy still prevail.
Then when things go bad, the social contagion sweeps the other way (the computer risk models never quite get this).
The "burned-over district" -- so-called because 19th-century dissident religious and social movements swept over the area like wildfires -- has nurtured iconoclasts of every ilk.
A countercultural wave with roots in political and social activism swept the nation, culminating in the enormous success of bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam.
BERLIN — Parties on the German left prevailed in a regional election in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Sunday, with the center-left Social Democrats swept back to power and the Greens elected to the regional parliament for the first time, according to preliminary results.
In the second half of the 20th Century, far-reaching social changes swept across the United States - changes that were reflected in Alistair Cooke's weekly broadcasts.
The seeds of the project were planted in 2011, when social movements swept the globe, and the call for "real democracy" could be heard from protesters operating in radically different contexts the 15-M movement in Spain, the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt, Occupy Wall Street in the United States.
It tested her loyalty to longtime allies like President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and reinforced her conviction that anger at decades of stagnation, fueled by social media, would sweep aside the old order in the Arab world.
Whether or not that happens to London will be determined in part by the economic and social forces that sweep uncontrollably across history, and in part by the voters of Britain and the bureaucrats of Brussels.
