(n.) Harassing labor; trouble; molestation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion.
(v. t.) To harass with commotion; to disquiet; to worry.
(v. i.) To be disquieted or confused; to be in commotion.
Example Sentences:
(1) He deploys a zero-risk strategy aimed at keeping his rightwing political base behind him, while convincing the public that he alone could lead the country in times of regional turmoil.
(2) A six-month uprising by the rebel group M23, led by war crimes suspect Bosco "the Terminator" Ntaganda, has caused fresh turmoil in eastern Congo and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
(3) The centre-left PD party, for example, is in turmoil - with leader Pier Luigi Bersani resigning over the weekend after both his favoured candidates for the presidency were rejected.
(4) However, following the management turmoil that engulfed the BBC in the autumn as it struggled to deal with the Savile scandal, there have been calls for the role to be reinstated.
(5) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
(6) With the eurozone unravelling and world markets in turmoil, threatening even the meagre recovery the UK economy had achieved since the onset of the credit crunch, he repeatedly evokes a mood of national emergency to explain why the coalition he forged with David Cameron is the right government for the times.
(7) Running ITV is likely to prove a tough challenge given the ongoing turmoil in the advertising market, with some advocating that the company needs a turnaround specialist or a leader who will enable the company to exploit digital technology.
(8) They watch her life crumble as she's subjected to further turmoil through pregnancy or marital crisis.
(9) It demonstrated the turmoil facing Lucas, a £6m talent whose desperation to impress increases with every sporadic appearance, that the Kop began chanting Alonso's name after 36 minutes.
(10) Against the backdrop of market turmoil, the head of the International Monetary Fund warned that global growth will be weaker than previously expected .
(11) Against the backdrop of a faltering global economy, turmoil in the country’s stock markets and overcapacity in factories, Chinese economic growth has slowed markedly.
(12) The public, buffeted by weather fluctuations and economic turmoil, has little time to analyse decadal changes.
(13) British officials played down the turmoil in the NTC, insisting it was linked directly to the investigation into the killing of Younes.
(14) Yet while its problems are well documented, it's often difficult to get a sense of what it's like for the artists caught up in the turmoil.
(15) Alex Wynaendts, chief executive, said the deal would "strengthen Aegon's position during this period of uncertainty and unprecedented economic turmoil" and provide an improved capital buffer.
(16) But, since then, it has fallen to around $1,660 (£1,047) defying predictions – and the hopes of speculators – that it would continue to hit new peaks during the ongoing financial turmoil.
(17) While political turmoil could make London's townhouses an even more attractive safe haven for wealthy Russians and Ukrainians, a spokesperson said: "We've seen no real change and nor do we expect any."
(18) The majority of these children come from Guatemala , Honduras and El Salvador – three of the many countries ravaged by civil strife, drug wars and economic turmoil precipitated by US political and military intervention over several decades, as well as free-trade regimes and the corporate plunder of Latin America's natural resources.
(19) Efforts to unite the disparate groups have until now been lost in a myriad of competing ambitions and decades of political turmoil.
(20) Political turmoil in a state western counter-terrorism agencies have been able to rely on would also have "far-reaching consequences for the Arab-Israel relationship and regional instability", a former senior intelligence official said.
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.