The axis of upheaval has many members.
Is the world facing a new food-price upheaval?
There are reasons to expect that 2010 could be a year of upheaval.
The cardinal wanted to avoid damage to the Catholic church; the minister wanted to avoid political upheaval; both wished to avoid deadly loyalist retaliation.
The bad news for Bush’s successor, Barack Obama, is that he now faces a much larger and potentially more troubling axis—an axis of upheaval.
But this is not Egypt or Tunisia, where the wave of political upheaval sweeping the Arab world crested last winter, toppling the regimes of Hosni Mubarak and Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
Mass unemployment may lead to social upheaval.
Today's upheaval did not occur from nowhere. The seeds were planted earlier.
They were sustained by their belief that all this upheaval was part of an attempt to create a better society.
Less than an hour before trading began on Wall Street, President Bush reaffirmed the need for congressional action to stave off further financial upheaval.
Where is the next upheaval?
In Zimbabwe in 2008 Robert Mugabe's sabotage of elections set off civil upheaval.
Yet in Britain, for all the talk of the “knowledge-based economy”, secondary schooling and vocational training are in a state of permanent upheaval and universities are underfunded.
But this upheaval is a puzzle.
But will the government, seeing unrest simmer in the region in the wake of Tunisia's upheaval, hold its nerve?
The mechanics of risk management are also in upheaval.
Kristen's aunts and uncles would happily have taken in their orphaned niece, but Kristen had been through so much already that Michele worried about putting her through even more upheaval.
This means a lot of upheaval for families and individuals, and for Arizona's economy.
And couples who are aware of the consequences of divorce, including the financial strain and upheaval in children's lives that often ensue, are more likely to stick together.
