It would bring two of America's closest Middle East allies back together, a welcome boost for Washington's efforts to confront widespread upheaval in the Middle East.
About 1200 BCE, widespread upheaval throughout the Mediterranean Basin ushered in the Iron Age Kingdoms, whose diverse ethnic groups, e.g., Phoenicians, Arameans, Israelites, played such a pivotal role in the foundations of western civilization.
Western diplomats respond that whatever tactics the United States uses will be criticized, but note that while anti-Americanism is widespread in Pakistan, it has so far proved not deep enough to bring widespread upheaval.
"That kind of data is difficult to ascertain during conflict, due to the widespread upheaval, displacement and intense fear that characterises life for civilians – especially women and girls – as they flee for their lives," she says.
And yet, when Mr. de Blasio said on Thursday that he would immediately replace the current taxi commissioner, David S. Yassky, if elected, he convulsed an industry that has undergone widespread upheaval in recent years, inspiring a stern response from a coalition of cabbies and a fractious exchange on Twitter between a deputy mayor and a state assemblyman.
But while Uganda shares many of the same, combustible conditions that have fueled popular uprisings in the Arab world — grinding poverty, masses of jobless, students glued to Facebook and a leader who refuses to step down after more than two decades in power — few here expect widespread upheaval.
Few interpreters have read the Devout so insistently within their own time and space by looking to the social and religious conditions that marked towns and parishes in northern Europe during the fifteenth century and examining the widespread upheavals in cultural and religious life between the 1370s and the 1440s.
The Bush administration is taking a dim view of China just as that country is headed for+a historic transformation accompanied by widespread domestic upheaval.
It might feel to Russians as if great turns in history take them out of the frying pan and into the fire, as the era of privatization in the 1990s was marked by widespread social upheaval and suffering that left many nostalgic for the era of the Soviet Union.
"The truth, whether people want to hear it or not, is that the longer we wait before we make major cuts in carbon emissions, the worse the event will cost…those costs could include major impacts on global food supply and widespread social upheaval.
Colonial under-investment, followed by internal misrule and compounded by external intervention, have generated widespread social upheaval, stalled development and progressive impoverishment, with ethnic, religious and social divisions reflected in the recent civil conflict.
