(a.) Full of tumult; characterized by tumult; disorderly; turbulent.
(a.) Conducted with disorder; noisy; confused; boisterous; disorderly; as, a tumultuous assembly or meeting.
(a.) Agitated, as with conflicting passions; disturbed.
(a.) Turbulent; violent; as, a tumultuous speech.
Example Sentences:
(1) The government part-nationalised Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds-HBOS at the end of a tumultuous month in the global markets following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the American investment bank.
(2) In countries such as Sri Lanka, child survival and health for all by the year 2000 often seem to be impossible goals, given the tumultuous socioeconomic and political conditions.
(3) Macedonia’s decision to tighten its border with Greece, allowing only Syrians and Iraqis to pass through into the EU, has created tumultuous scenes along its border fence.
(4) You had a tumultuous tenure as editor of The Lady during which you got into trouble with the proprietors for carrying an interview with Tracey Emin in which she talked about sewing being a good distraction from masturbation.
(5) David Cameron began to form his first government comprised solely of Conservative cabinet members on Friday after being delivered an overall Commons majority by a tumultuous election.
(6) However, the case has now been transferred to pre-court.” Criticising the British government over its handling of his wife’s case, Ratcliffe suggested that the tumultuous politics surrounding the EU referendum had lessened interest in her fate.
(7) The latest exchanges set the stage for a tumultuous first session of prime minister's questions on Wednesday following the summer break, when the issue of Syria is certain to dominate.
(8) The announcement by Conservative party central office that Rowland would not be taking the post due to his "developing business interests" capped a tumultuous summer for the property developer who, soon after the Tories announced that he would take over as their treasurer, became the subject of a string of stories in the Daily Mail that sought to paint his business dealings and personal life in a controversial light.
(9) But Rolls is a sound business.” Rishton oversaw a tumultuous period for Rolls that included a string of profit warnings, the first fall in sales for a decade, and the Serious Fraud Office launching an investigation into corruption allegations.
(10) Hume has a reputation for restraint rather than excess, for steady endeavour rather than tumultuous creativity.
(11) The allegations come at the end of a tumultuous week.
(12) I’m delighted.” There were chunks of empty seats in the Hull end at Wembley but the noise inside the stadium was tumultuous, an indication of the stakes at hand.
(13) The tumultuous and often bitter EU referendum campaign has left the two rival camps – Remain and Leave – locked in a dramatic dead heat with just four days to go before the British people decide their European future.
(14) Prof Gillian Leng, the deputy chief executive of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), said that "for many young people on the cusp of adulthood, moving between health and social-care services can be a tumultuous and stressful time.
(15) I covered Berlusconi's first successful election, in 1994, after four tumultuous years as Rome correspondent, during which an entire political class had come under investigation and much of it under arrest – even the pillar of Italy's opaque establishment, the prime minister and Christian Democrat leader, Giulio Andreotti.
(16) This is a very difficult and tumultuous time for Somalis and Muslims in the US.” The crime of “material support” carries a maximum prison sentence of 15 years.
(17) For councils as politically tumultuous as this north-west London borough, the idea that a political leader can provide stability and long-term direction is naive.
(18) Poland's recent past has been so much more tumultuous and tragic than ours.
(19) 9 November: A tumultuous day begins with an emergency meeting of the system’s governing board and Wolfe resigns.
(20) Evidence is presented here that an excess of OT in fetal blood over that found in maternal plasma was associated with hypertonic, irregular, tumultuous or prolonged labor and with mild to moderate fetal hypoxia and fetal distress peculiar to abnormal uterine contractions.
Unruly
Definition:
(superl.) Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
(2) He has charisma, he’s self-made and that’s why the Pakistani establishment hates him.” The MQM has come into ever greater conflict with the rangers in the last two years as both the central government in Islamabad and the powerful army have sought to impose order on the unruly port city of 20 million people.
(3) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(4) Others face more niggling problems: in a recent post on the local Facebook group “Eliminate All Stray Dogs”, one resident claimed an unruly pack kept jumping on his car, destroying its windscreen wipers.
(5) It expands what language can do and what fiction can do, and when a reader collides with that unruly exuberance, he or she has to shift perspective.
(6) On Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, police had to break up an unruly crowd with pepper spray.
(7) He has a not-so-secret agenda to try to stay on the side of public opinion, appease his unruly party and cover his right flank against Nigel Farage's buoyant Ukip.
(8) The city is too much of a sprawl, its traffic too unruly.
(9) But running nightclubs must have been good preparation for what Bennett describes as his own unhappy debut as a newly qualified religious studies teacher confronting an unruly class.
(10) Now the Alamo Drafthouse, which is known for its strict policy towards unruly customers, has taken the largely symbolic step of banning the singer from all its premises .
(11) How such a simple ratio – the simplest ratio of the simplest shape – is also the most unruly and irregular is a mystery that still provokes awe and wonder.
(12) Before her death, Vera had said she holds the state totally responsible for her security, adding “they are the ones who send people to repress us,” While the Mexican government likes to portray itself internationally as the victim of unruly drug gangs and corrupt local officials, these investigations raise serious questions about the complicity of the federal government in the crimes committed against its citizens.
(13) North Korea's dramatic and provocative announcement of its third nuclear test on 12 February has raised critical questions about the effectiveness of the international community in reining in north-east Asia's most unruly actor.
(14) An unruly Libya could provide a safe haven for Egyptian militants, who have launched hundreds of attacks on Egyptian security forces throughout the past year.
(15) He blamed the delay on "an unruly mob using Occupy Wall Street tactics", according to the Austin American-Statesman , and denied mishandling the debate.
(16) Make sure you take a camera, as there are 12 designated panoramic viewing spots, including the impressive Pont d'Arc, where the unruly river flows under a natural arch.
(17) In the late 1960s and early 70s when Smith was a prominent and powerful figure in Rochdale it has been reported that some people in the town used to send their unruly children to Smith's home on Emma Street to be chastised.
(18) I would like to suggest an approach for categorizing and diagnosing unruly hair forms, based on a review of the literature as well as on experience with such cases.
(19) After a Turkish court sued caricaturist Musa Kart for depicting then prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as a cat entangled in a ball of wool in 2005, Penguen published a series of animals all sporting the heads of Erdoğan – a Turkish government leader known for his lack of a sense of humour and his love of suing unruly cartoonists – and promptly found itself facing a court case for defaming authority.
(20) A method is proposed for analysing case-control studies with ordinal or continuous, but unruly, exposure levels.