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  • Upheavals in Rwanda and Congo, and the eruption of an unrelated Acholi insurgency, brought more Kalashnikovs into the country.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • Upheavals of epic proportions are sweeping the earth.

    Tim Giago: Tottering on the brink of the Year 2012 2009

  • Upheavals introduced by Byron and Baudelaire or James and Wolff that modified expressions substantially might have gone too far in contemporary America, and taken many convoluted avatars in academic dissertations but there is no valid reason why everyone should “imitate” the pattern.

    We are like that only Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Upheavals introduced by Byron and Baudelaire or James and Wolff that modified expressions substantially might have gone too far in contemporary America, and taken many convoluted avatars in academic dissertations but there is no valid reason why everyone should “imitate” the pattern.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Upheavals of thought: The intelligence of emotions, Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

    Moral Reasoning Richardson, Henry S. 2007

  • Upheavals in Liberia were allowed to fester and spread to Sierra Leone and then Ivory Coast; and now Guinea may be on the precipice as well.

    Aid: Can It Work? Kristof, Nicholas D. 2006

  • In other words, they deal with the creation of the past as text., or much of the Anthropology, Folklore, Linguistics section, for example Jewish Russians: Upheavals in a Moscow Synagogue, by Sascha L.

    languagehat.com: U. PENN SALE AND SAVAGE MINDS. 2005

  • Upheavals in political, economic, social, and cultural conditions in the 1980s led to many challenges in everyday lives of average citizens of East European countries.

    Making the History of 1989 1989

  • Count-Down: The Polish Upheavals of 1956, 1968, 1970, 1976, 1980 ... by Jakub Karpinski, translated by Olga Amsterdamska, by Gene M. M.ore

    Poland's Eternal Return Malia, Martin 1983

  • Upheavals have erupted so rapidly in the wake of what Premier Macmillan of England called "winds of change", that they have forced the nations of the West, as well as the nations of Asia and the Far East, to make basic readjustments in their attitudes, policies and strategies as they form new relationships to the rapidly developing nations of Africa which did not exist a half-dozen years ago.

    International Aspects of American Race Relations 1962

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