0 a state of confusion, uncertainty, or disorder: --
1 a state of extreme confusion, uncertainty, or lack of order: --
Reforms usually occur in a context of political turmoil and chaos, with interest groups being challenged and decisions being made at an accelerated pace.
Instead of high economic growth and national development, we have seen a series of economic crises, the collapse of states, and religious and ethnic turmoil.
It took several years of economic turmoil before the uniform cost-of-living adjustment was finally abolished and its promoters admitted their mistake.
The huge initial costs of the program and the turmoil of the late 1960s pushed any expansion of the program off the immediate political agenda.
These hesitations and waverings do sometimes occur, and they made behaviorists uncomfortable because they suggested that animals might be in mental turmoil over difficult trials.
In the turmoil of the sixties and early seventies, however, such voices were by no means unchallenged.
But prefects, like nonofficeholding students, were divided and played ambiguous roles in the turmoil.
Even the dream of it has brought to the country division, turmoil and tyranny.
