What's the difference between cataclysmic and upheaval?

Cataclysmic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the absence of cataclysmic hemorrhage, this easier procedure usually does not cause any irreversible neurological deficit.
  • (2) It is this ultra-austerianism that has led to the cataclysmic beggaring of Greece, bleeding the patient white and then – when seeing that he’s dying – insisting that he bleed some more.
  • (3) So soon afterwards, here was their new leader telling them they had made a cataclysmic error: far from divine, Stalin was satanic.
  • (4) When George Robertson, erstwhile secretary general of Nato, used a New York speech to warn of the "cataclysmic" effects of a yes vote, suggesting it would be an early Christmas present for global terrorists, even close colleagues had to avert their ears.
  • (5) The first patient died within a few minutes of admission from a cataclysmic hematemesis.
  • (6) Although the major studies concerning the probable course of events after the seven-year exemption expires indicate that there will not be a cataclysmic effect on institutions of higher education, it is still not certain how tenured faculty will behave and how that will affect medical schools.
  • (7) "The whole world is in cataclysmic disillusionment," he says, pouring his fizzy water.
  • (8) Elements of a "perfect storm", a global cataclysm, are assembled.
  • (9) Some might argue that our eyes weren't quite on the ball back in '89: never mind the cataclysmic political upheaval in eastern Europe – the results of which still echo around the world – let's devote ourselves to a page concerned with vexed questions such as: why is water wet?
  • (10) There are bad days, increasingly so for them, but then there are days like this that break new boundaries of cataclysmic play and make those of us who predicted a close series seem like end-of-the-pier charlatan soothsayers.
  • (11) As in Baghdad in 2003, so in Tripoli in 2011: the destruction of authority was more cataclysmic than any other worst-case scenario.
  • (12) In practice, such a cataclysmic decision is still a long way off.
  • (13) Cataclysmal hemorrhage occurred in eight patients with known aggressive squamous cell tumors of the head and neck.
  • (14) Israel could instead wait until that day comes, and thereby enjoy many more years of West Bank control and the security advantages that go with it – particularly valuable at a time of cataclysm in the region.
  • (15) Agents lethal to chicken embryos and mice were isolated from the blood and spleen of 2 muskrats and 2 snowshoe hares which died during the cataclysmic die-off of 1961 in Central Saskatchewan.
  • (16) That said, we don’t think this is a prelude to another 2008-style cataclysm.
  • (17) The young Yorkist King Edward IV's impetuous union with the beautiful Elizabeth Woodville didn't produce such an immediate bloodbath in 15th-century England, but its eventual consequences – dead princes in the Tower, a usurping king slaughtered at Bosworth and the coming of the Tudors – were scarcely less cataclysmic: the Plantagenets, like the Starks, wiped out by their enemies.
  • (18) "Cataclysmic money" was spent razing extant if tatty inner city zones, with their diverse uses, their self-generated social and economic energy vibrating on crowded sidewalks.
  • (19) A quite different picture is that of hemorrhagic ulcer occurring abruptly without any warning signs in 6 cases, causing cataclysmal bleeding in three.
  • (20) The late postoperative hemorrhages are the most severe ones, often cataclysmic (eight cases with five deaths, 62.5%) being mainly the result of the primitive carotid erosion by a salivary fistula.

Upheaval


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of upheaving, or the state of being upheaved; esp., an elevation of a portion of the earth's crust.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result has been called the biggest human upheaval since the Second World War.
  • (2) It is clearly painful for her to keep talking about Larsson's death, and the ugliness and upheaval that has come since.
  • (3) During previous upheavals in relations, such as over the Syrian crisis, conversations have taken place between diplomats.
  • (4) Every now and again a leader would promise to reform the system, but it survived, even after upheavals as great as that represented by the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.
  • (5) In its half-yearly health check, the Washington-based fund said the global economy remained fragile and stressed that high unemployment posed risks of social upheaval.
  • (6) Continuous expert nursing care must be provided to ensure that the patient survives life-threatening events and to facilitate optimal adaptation of the patient and family during this enormous emotional upheaval of their lives.
  • (7) What these constitutional amendments add up to is a cross-party agreement that the comprehensive health service will continue, a solid foundation for the health service after the upheavals and uncertainties of recent years.
  • (8) He said: "While GPs and other clinicians support the concept of clinically led commissioning, they do not believe that this expensive upheaval of the health service is needed to achieve that.
  • (9) When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s heavily-controlled press.
  • (10) Less than a week after the fall of Mubarak, the professor received a phone call from the head of Egypt's national archives asking him to oversee a unique new project that would document the country's dramatic political and social upheaval this year and make it available for generations of Egyptians to come.
  • (11) He was 28), but it predicted – and I’m sorry to mention this – that “the relationship will have initial problems, and later, when in his early forties, a pattern of emotional upheaval emerges.
  • (12) Above a fairly straightforward news story about the court’s decision to allow the country’s elected representatives a vote on the biggest constitutional upheaval in a generation, initially the headline read: “Yet again the elite show their contempt for Brexit voters!” Call me ‘remoaner-in-chief’, but I won’t be voting to trigger article 50 | Owen Smith Read more Launched within an hour of the verdict, the headline went on: “Supreme Court rules Theresa May CANNOT trigger Britain’s departure from the EU without MPs’ approval … as Remain campaigners gloat.” The copy itself provided little evidence of gloating.
  • (13) Terry adds that these hostile black recruits were "veterans of the civil rights movement or the urban upheavals, the riots in the streets.
  • (14) Libya’s state institutions, already plagued by decades of misrule under Italian colonialism, a monarchy, and Gaddafi’s regime, have been further eroded by four years of upheaval.
  • (15) This independent assessment also puts paid to Ed Miliband’s myth that the reforms were about privatisation, and highlights why both the public and the health sector should be wary of Labour’s plans for upheaval and reorganisation”, he added.
  • (16) Julie Bishop remains deputy Liberal leader and a ministerial shakeup looms after the leadership upheaval.
  • (17) Scientists confidently predict that the worst upheaval we humans face at the end of this, and indeed any other calendar, is the need to get a new calendar.
  • (18) Excuse me,” the hardliner says, “do you have a course handout?” Iranians often make jokes to digest political upheaval, and Trump’s rise to power has drawn comparisons with that of a leader closer to home – one whose eight years in office marked a deterioration in Iran-US relations.
  • (19) Scott Morrison has said he was “offended” and “disappointed” that his friend the broadcaster Ray Hadley pressed him to swear an oath on the Bible to prove he was telling the truth about his actions in the Liberal leadership upheaval.
  • (20) And they reflect a broader exhaustion: after two referendums and two national elections within 18 months, Scottish voters have minimal appetite for further upheaval.