0 a great change, especially causing or involving much difficulty, activity, or trouble: --
1 (a) great change, causing or involving difficulty or trouble: --
This latter transformation was contemporary with a period characterized by major political upheaval and subsequent recovery.
The upheavals of 1913-14 had a profoundly radicalizing impact on him.
Meteors were neither the natural cause of social and political upheavals here on earth, nor even signs for such occurrences.
A shared regional perception of how the world is changing would facilitate adaptation to such changes, and this could minimize social upheaval and disintegration.
The major upheavals of the immediate post-war years had subsided, although instabilities remained.
Philosophy, after all, as he points out, was how contemporaries themselves-both proponents and opponents-explained the origins of the upheaval initiated in 1789.
Older traditions were inevitably seen as dead and buried in the years of upheaval because of historical gaps spanning several generations.
Continuing upheavals in provincial leadership - and there were further signs - raised questions about the capacity of the central government itself.
