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revolution as in:  the computer revolution

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  • The computer revolution disrupted the job market.
  • They both knew that even though it was 1930 and the revolution in Mexico had been over for ten years, there was still resentment against the large landowners.   (source)
    revolution = overthrow of the old government
  • It's our li'l revolutionary.   (source)
    revolutionary = someone who fights for dramatic change
  • What was needed was a revolution, a reversal of the ancient, brittle roles we'd been playing out since my childhood.   (source)
    revolution = dramatic change
  • ... I was still getting over Stalin, in Russia. The so-called second revolution—the murder of his own people.   (source)
    revolution = overthrow of the government
  • Next door to us the Shah of Iran had been overthrown in a revolution a few months earlier, so the CIA had lost their main base in the region.   (source)
    revolution = overthrow of the old government
  • Biotechnology promises the greatest revolution in human history.   (source)
    revolution = dramatic change
  • I bunk in the front because I'm the best sharpshooter in Salamander Army, and because Bonzo is afraid I'll start a revolution if the toon leaders don't keep an eye on me.   (source)
    revolution = overthrow of leadership
  • And this was followed by another thought, far more revolutionary: "Maybe they just don't care!"   (source)
    revolutionary = dramatically different
  • In fact, twenty years after the civil rights revolution, the jury remained an institution largely unchanged by the legal requirements of racial integration and diversity.   (source)
    revolution = dramatic change
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  • She pumped uphill and around a sharp turn, narrowly avoiding a stone Revolutionary War battle memorial sign.   (source)
    revolutionary = related to the overthrow of an old government
  • There are worse things than revolution!   (source)
    revolution = fighting to overthrow a government
  • My cowardice is of such a passion, complementing the revolutionary spirit that lives in its shadow, I was forced to design this.   (source)
    revolutionary = related to a desire for dramatic change
  • A vast differentiation had taken place, and in their own time a revolution had unseated the royal government and substituted a junta which was at this moment in power.   (source)
    revolution = overthrow of the old government
  • On his eleventh revolution he switched off the air-conditioning, opened up his window, and rested his elbow comfortably on the sill, driving with one hand.   (source)
    revolution = time around
  • The Revolutionary War had begun.   (source)
    revolutionary = related to the overthrow of a government
  • I imagine Juliet sneaking up to her room in the dark, and the silence, through the atmosphere of sleep so thick it feels solid, the lullaby of creaking floorboards and quietly hissing radiators, the slow revolutions of people orbiting wordlessly around one another….   (source)
    revolutions = circles
  • In the early months of World War II, San Francisco's Fillmore district, or the Western Addition, experienced a visible revolution.   (source)
    revolution = dramatic change
  • The next afternoon I was standing outside my Spanish class when Leonard Rodriguez, who sat next to me, came hurrying down the hall with a revolutionary's fire in his eye.   (source)
    revolutionary = someone fighting for dramatic change
  • You have been alive a very long time; you lived half your life before the Revolution.   (source)
    revolution = dramatic change brought on by the overthrow of the old government
  • If there is not peace, then there will be revolution.   (source)
    revolution = dramatic change
  • Her husband realised all his money before the Revolution and invested it abroad.   (source)
    revolution = overthrow of the old government
  • Obviously, this work cannot be wrought by turning back, or away, from what has been accomplished by the modern revolution; for the problem is nothing if not that of rendering the modern world spiritually significant—or rather (phrasing the same principle the other way round) nothing if not that of making it possible for men and women to come to full human maturity through the conditions of contemporary life.   (source)
    revolution = dramatic change
  • If we could get our prominent business men and all the other rightthinking people interested in it, it would bring about the mightiest revolution ever known in a nation's life.   (source)
  • Before Mr. Dimmesdale reached home, his inner man gave him other evidences of a revolution in the sphere of thought and feeling.   (source)
  • Then the appearance of death was distant, although the wish was ever present to my thoughts; and I often sat for hours motionless and speechless, wishing for some mighty revolution that might bury me and my destroyer in its ruins.   (source)
    revolution = violent and dramatic change
  • As for Wickham and Lydia, their characters suffered no revolution from the marriage of her sisters.   (source)
    revolution = dramatic change
  • The right-hand one, commissioned by my Grandmother Adelia, is of Colonel Parkman, a veteran of the last decisive battle fought in the American Revolution, that of Fort Ticonderoga, now in New York State.†   (source)
  • But the four junior high girls had their own revolutionary methods that they believed were invincible.†   (source)
  • Iran's military, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, it's like a mix of the Communist Party, the KGB, and the mafia.†   (source)
  • Whatever his claim to eminence, the old revolutionary acknowledged the deference of the two young Bolsheviks with a self-assured nod of the head—all the while sitting in the very chair from which the Grand Duchess Anapova had received the greetings of dutiful young princes at her annual Easter Ball.†   (source)
  • I'd always been an American history buff, and some of the buildings on campus predated the Revolutionary War.†   (source)
  • Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon.†   (source)
  • They're arrogant and dull, and that's why I left them, but they aren't revolutionaries.†   (source)
  • At one end is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, commemorating the Revolutionary War dead buried there.†   (source)
  • The battles of Lexington and Concord in the American Revolutionary War were fought in what year?†   (source)
  • "Here's Francis Garaventa," Jackie said, oblivious to Mae's distress, "who can talk about the intersection between Youth-Rank and TruYouth, which I must say is at once revolutionary and necessary."†   (source)
  • When she was paired with Courtney in social studies to make a timeline of the American Revolution, Josie had groaned-she was sure she'd be pulling all the weight.†   (source)
  • A revolutionary's wife who ended up living among strangers.†   (source)
  • The revolutionary, all scars and tension, stands over him.†   (source)
  • Tita hurried to the door, opened it, and saw what Pulque was making such a fuss over, a person riding at the head of a band of revolutionary soldiers.†   (source)
  • I picked up a biography of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara—whose face adorned a poster on the wall—that Lara's roommate had on her bookshelf, then I lay down next to Lara on the bottom bunk.†   (source)
  • The enthusiasm had reminded me of the glorious revolutionary activities that I had seen in the movies.†   (source)
  • They were standing in the corner near the glass case that held a chalice used during the Revolutionary War, when the church had been a hospital.†   (source)
  • With a street-fighter's unerring instincts, Comrade Pillai knew that his straitened circumstances (his small, hot house, his grunting mother, his obvious proximity to the toiling masses) gave him a power over Chacko that in those revolutionary times no amount of Oxford education could match.†   (source)
  • A stooped woman, Maraa Luisa Mora Martan, more than a hundred years old, who was reduced to eating the bark of her plantain tree during the Mexican Revolution, forces her knotted hands to fill bags with tortillas, beans, and salsa so her daughter, Soledad Vasquez, seventy, can run down a rocky slope and heave them onto a train.†   (source)
  • Later still he put together a number of East Los Angeles study groups engaged in revolutionary theory.†   (source)
  • I had heard from adults that this was a revolutionary war, a liberation of the people from corrupt government.†   (source)
  • Avoiding high explosives because of the Grand Mosque, the Revolutionary Guard used automatic weapons, crude energy cannon, plasma charges, and human wave attacks.†   (source)
  • Their theories and revolutionary ideas had enormous influence beyond the frontiers of their own countries.†   (source)
  • Some wanted a fancy name that would touch all the high spots, Revolutionary Party of Dominican Integrity.†   (source)
  • They read handouts written in English about the Bengali Renaissance, and the revolutionary exploits of Subhas Chandra Bose.†   (source)
  • During the twenty years he's been away, the American Revolution has happened, the picture of British King George has been transformed by the proprietors into that of our George (Washington), although with the same face.†   (source)
  • The Member Registries Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Asher had spent years compiling, the family trees going back to the Mayflower and the Revolution, were destroyed.†   (source)
  • You're saying you're a revolutionary like the Jeune Mou Pro.†   (source)
  • But the revolutionary ideas arose much earlier.†   (source)
  • The idea was revolutionary.†   (source)
  • How does one fall from grace and become in one instant as evil as the snob tribunal of the Revolution or the most cruel of the Roman emperors?†   (source)
  • He had helped with the designing of her revolutionary drive system and had inspected the model, which had been running on the Caspian Sea for some years in absolute secrecy.†   (source)
  • A few days later, however, the communist revolutionary leader led a big crowd to the head villager's house.†   (source)
  • TMAWH fire hydrants are numerous, for safety, and highly designed, for property values, not the squat iron things imprinted with the name of some godforsaken Industriab Revolution foundry and furry from a hundred variously flaked layers of cheap city paint.†   (source)
  • "Revolutionary?" he growled.†   (source)
  • A man with a shirt frayed at the cuffs, without a jacket and wearing broken shoes, marched along reciting the Poet's most revolutionary poems, his grief streaming down his face.†   (source)
  • But close up you could always see the defiance in their eyes, that hatred of America, the fire of the revolutionary that burned in their souls.†   (source)
  • They want revolutionary change, something that sets them apart qualitatively from their competitors.†   (source)
  • He had convinced himself that trashing the Trentons' house had not been an act of half-mad jealous pique but a piece of revolutionary anarchy — offing a couple of fat middle-class pigs, the sort who made it easy for the fascist overlords to remain in power by blindly paying their taxes and their telephone bills.†   (source)
  • They were not revolutionary discoveries that he made all on his own; they were problems that had preoccupied Inspector Morell for long periods, especially in his free time.†   (source)
  • Once again, Eragon was forced to revise his conception of Brom, from the village storyteller that Eragon had first taken him to be, to the warrior and magician he had traveled with, to the Rider he was at last revealed as, and now firebrand, revolutionary leader, and assassin.†   (source)
  • Yetta waited for Rahel to correct her, to say they weren't Jewish anymore, they were socialists, unionists, revolutionaries.†   (source)
  • Aureliano Jose, tall like his grandfather, dressed as a revolutionary officer, gave him military honors.†   (source)
  • CORIOLIS STORM: any major sandstorm on Arrakis where winds across the open flatlands are amplified by the planet's own revolutionary motion to reach speeds up to 700 kilometers per hour.†   (source)
  • We suspected that many of the university students who bought our ink were Communist revolutionaries making propaganda posters that would appear on walls in the middle of the night.†   (source)
  • He sang all the revolutionary songs, usually loudly and out of tune, until Mam would tell him to be quiet, that the babies were sleeping.†   (source)
  • This man was willing to try something revolutionary to cure insanity.†   (source)
  • To my relief, no revolutionary red star appeared on the moon's yellow surface.†   (source)
  • She also had a growing collection of historic manuscripts and maps, some of which dated from before the Revolutionary War.†   (source)
  • They knew that he was driven, in flight: the liberal, even revolutionary sentiments of which he was so proud meant nothing to them whatever.†   (source)
  • Finally, she did something revolutionary: She went to the police and reported the rape, demanding prosecution.†   (source)
  • Readers pictured him as a revolutionary, but one who operated on the poor instead of preaching land reform.†   (source)
  • Where are all those black revolutionaries who were shouting and demonstrating and kicking up a lot of dust with you on that campus?†   (source)
  • I got my notebook and a pen and ventured down to the Black Revolutionary Party headquarters to see if I could interview any of the leaders.†   (source)
  • Mostly, it was just that she was friendly from her revolutionary days with Kathy Boudin, a radical who'd been involved in the robbery.†   (source)
  • In the months that followed my revolutionary spirit was rekindled and the political aspects of Francisco Madero's activities became more manifest.†   (source)
  • The languages were important because everyone was trained for a destination, to carry out revolutionary acts throughout the world.†   (source)
  • Hale's place in the pantheon of American heroes, as the martyr spy of the Revolution, was not to come until years later.†   (source)
  • Is "Revolution" covering the sound of her crying?†   (source)
  • She came from a land where revolutionary illusion had long since faded but where the thing he admired most in revolution remained: life on a large scale; a life of risk, daring, and the danger of death.†   (source)
  • With this bomb we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction to supplement the growing power of our armed forces.†   (source)
  • If the Revolution comes to grief, it will be because you and those you lead have become alarmed at your own brutality.†   (source)
  • It was the struggle between the state and secret groups of insurgents, state-born, wild-eyed—the anarchists, terrorists, assassins and revolutionaries who tried to bring about apocalyptic change.†   (source)
  • Word got back that guerrillas had planted the bomb because the pharmacy represented "crumbs for the poor," a palliative designed to curb the growth of revolutionary fervor.†   (source)
  • Years before, the hospital had taken the revolutionary step of opening its doors to women studying to become doctors, the only hospital in London to do so.†   (source)
  • Thomas Jefferson noted this while reflecting on the tiny incentive that led to the Boston Tea Party and, in turn, the American Revolution: "So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."†   (source)
  • Dobbs shouted louder, his face red with revolutionary fervor.†   (source)
  • At the end of the program, the faculty turned their backs to the students, and everyone bowed the three bows toward the picture of Doctor Sun Yat-sen, who was a western surgeon before he became a revolutionary.†   (source)
  • Then again, she should have accounted for the fact that there had been battles fought in and around the Hollow in both the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.†   (source)
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revolution as in:  revolution around the sun

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  • The seasons are influenced by the earth's tilt and revolution around the sun.
    revolution = circular movement
  • With each revolution, just before her face sweeps the sand, she lifts her head gently and takes in the sun-salt smell.   (source)
  • After all, the very first time she took the sack through town, she turned the corner onto Munich Street, looked both ways, and gave it one enormous swing—a whole revolution—and then checked the contents inside.   (source)
  • Relative rotational velocity is 0.05 revolutions per second.   (source)
    revolutions = circular movements around something
  • Hardly one revolution of the Thurmite moon had passed since Alyss' last incident:   (source)
    revolution = circular movement around something
  • Through the long revolutions around the suns of my last planet–the world of the See Weeds, as they were known here–I had waited.   (source)
    revolutions = circular movements
  • "Reducing the number of revolutions per minute," Mr. Foster explained. "The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen."   (source)
    revolutions = circular movements around something
  • "In Southern India," he writes, "the king's reign and life terminated with the revolution of the planet Jupiter round the sun."   (source)
    revolution = circular movement
  • Then he moved toward the desk, the boys falling away from him like water from the prow of a ship when it is first warped out from the pier and the screw makes the first revolutions.   (source)
    revolutions = rotations
  • A wagon rattled leanly over the big cobbles; beyond the firemen, the grocer Bradley wound up his awning with slow creaking revolutions.   (source)
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  • By great application, however, and after having remained during the space of several revolutions of the moon in my hovel, I discovered the names that were given to some of the most familiar objects of discourse; I learned and applied the words, 'fire,' 'milk,' 'bread,' and 'wood.'   (source)
    revolutions = circular movements around something
  • Just one quick revolution of a blue green planet around an unexceptional yellow star.   (source)
    revolution = circular movement
  • Mr. Simms obediently carried the wad around, and the body followed in the half revolution.   (source)
    revolution = movement around something
  • Down, down … A final twist, a glance at the revolution counter, and he was done.   (source)
    revolution = circular movement
  • He jammed on his brakes, and lifted his car round with a complete revolution of his long arms.   (source)
    revolution = circling
  • …yield their bounty of delights to a blissful population of perfectly wedded twins; and the happiness of this community again will be doubled, and the wheel, through ten millions of ten millions of one hundred millions of one hundred million periods of countless years, will approach the point of beginning the downward revolution, which again will lead to the extinction of the eternal religion and the gradually increasing noise of unwholesome merrymaking, warfare, and pestilential winds.   (source)
    revolution = circular movement
  • Henry kept his eye on the revolution-counter; when the needle touched the twelve hundred mark, he threw the helicopter screws out of gear.   (source)
  • Mr. Duffy's head did a massive quarter-revolution in the direction of Willie and the pale-blue eyes focused upon him from the great distance.   (source)
    revolution = circle
  • The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eight hundred revolutions a minute.   (source)
    revolutions = circular movements around something
  • The winter advanced, and an entire revolution of the seasons had taken place since I awoke into life.   (source)
    revolution = circle
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  • Hold on, I'm plotting a revolution.†   (source)
  • He spent his days lamenting his inability to foresee the revolution and the ensuing economic collapse.†   (source)
  • Stand with justice, stand with the revolution!†   (source)
  • Presumably, this elder had taken part in the 1905 revolution, or penned a pamphlet in 1880, or dined with Karl Marx back in 1852.†   (source)
  • In the chaos of the world I grew up in, those were as appealing to me as Malcolm's cry for revolution was to his generation.†   (source)
  • The reports that carry subtle threats and hint at revolution?†   (source)
  • What had happened, she insisted, was an inqilab, a revolution, an uprising of the working people against inequality.†   (source)
  • We're a revolution!†   (source)
  • And now it is night again, another revolution of the clock, and the whole block is quiet, and she cannot sleep.†   (source)
  • Within a few years, the campus became a hotbed for cultural revolution.†   (source)
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  • I tried to hang out at the Moscovitzes' as long as possible: I loaded the breakfast dishes in the dishwasher for Maya, since she was busy writing a letter to her congressman asking him to please do something about her son, Manuel, who was wrongfully imprisoned ten years ago for supporting a revolution in their country.†   (source)
  • Progress in design and materials brought about the short-board revolution in the late '60s, opening the door of surfing to those who were intimidated by the weight and heft of long boards.†   (source)
  • He was fastidious and timid and easily teased by the boys on his floor; on the nights he was given dorm duty—for the entire four floors—Waterhouse Hall seethed with revolution.†   (source)
  • While you live, the revolution lives.†   (source)
  • We all thought that if you came back, it would mean revolution.†   (source)
  • You are the slow burn that will quench a revolution with a few speeches and smiles.†   (source)
  • Look at any civil war or revolution from the fall of Rome onward, and it marks a time when demigods also fought one another.†   (source)
  • THERE GOES THE SUN When George Naylor's father spread his first load of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, the ecology of his farm underwent a quiet revolution.†   (source)
  • Not a one had escaped his clutches, and they were all ready to work for the revolution.†   (source)
  • After all, without revolution, how can we have peace?†   (source)
  • But comrade, you cannot stage their revolution for them.†   (source)
  • Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."†   (source)
  • Here is how one history of the period describes the advent of time-sharing: This was not just a revolution.†   (source)
  • There it is: the smell of salt spray and mist, a smell mixed, in my mind, with the idea of constant revolution, an eternal tide.†   (source)
  • The group studied politics, philosophy, economics — the dynamics of social revolution.†   (source)
  • This is not a revolution that will overthrow anything, or if it does, it will do so in ways we could never contrive in advance.†   (source)
  • On the third day of the revolution, Kassad landed the Denieve's single assault boat in the main courtyard of the Grand Mosque at Mashhad.†   (source)
  • Circumlocution is his revolution.†   (source)
  • There'll be no revolution at home because no one has the courage to risk his life by standing up to the G.Sta.†   (source)
  • Our mission was to effect an internal revolution rather than wait for an outside rescue.†   (source)
  • She sat up late at night with my elder siblings and talked about the revolution against the white man while we Little Kids slept upstairs.†   (source)
  • Revolutions inevitably fail, he tells us, because those who come to power are corrupted by it and reject the values and principles they initially embraced.†   (source)
  • He is one of the reasons I thought seriously about leaving an industry in the throes of revolution, and he is the reason I've decided I'll never be happy doing anything other than telling stories.†   (source)
  • The next day, Saturday, June 10, Ferris cabled Rice, "Your telegram stating that first revolution of wheel had been made last night at six o'clock and that same was successful in every way has caused great joy in this entire camp.†   (source)
  • "With Washington gone, the revolution will collapse," predicted the mayor.†   (source)
  • There is a revolution in Germany!†   (source)
  • I'm not some toy in your little revolution.†   (source)
  • Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution.†   (source)
  • When I talked with him he said, "Microbiological Associates and Sam Reader were an absolute revolution in the field, and I'm not one to use the word revolution lightly."†   (source)
  • The jar of spaghetti sauce Charlie'd stuck in the microwave was only on its first revolution when I yanked the door open and pulled it out.†   (source)
  • Named not only for the revolution that had forever changed the history of the world but also for the Red October Tractor Plant.†   (source)
  • I loved my Mang and my dia too much to betray them for my belief in Chairman Mao's revolution.†   (source)
  • He said that the violence of the system needed to be answered with the violence of revolution.†   (source)
  • Over the next half hour, the foam disk increased the speed of its revolutions until it spun like a top.†   (source)
  • He was the treasurer of the revolution in the Macondo region.†   (source)
  • It was true, she had wanted the job, but it was also true that she felt anger flaring up again: fine for Bree, who was out here starting revolutions, to consign her to a nine-to-five life.†   (source)
  • And when the revolution comes I'm coming to get you personally.†   (source)
  • You call this an indiscretion, as if we haven't had a revolution in frank and bold language.†   (source)
  • The IBP revolution was guided by a hard, unsentimental view of the world.†   (source)
  • That's not a revolution, but it reflects a meaningful impact.†   (source)
  • We don't know this, but Rosina is carrying the seed of revolution.†   (source)
  • There was no revolution, Melanie, and there will be no revolution.†   (source)
  • He ranted on for a while longer, complaining about adults and the "corrupt frigging system" and about the time being ripe for a young people's revolution.†   (source)
  • All this political reading made me think the island was ripe for an all-out race riot and political revolution just like the Haiti Graham Greene had written about in The Comedians.†   (source)
  • Guns, murder, revolution.†   (source)
  • He was born to be a leader, to be the center of a revolution.†   (source)
  • But revolution was another matter altogether.†   (source)
  • It's been there awhile, biding its time and growing closer with each revolution.†   (source)
  • The fate of the war and the revolution rested on the army.†   (source)
  • It is in this spirit that we may understand Franz's weakness for revolution.†   (source)
  • Murder and mayhem are the life and soul of revolution.†   (source)
  • It is very important for the revolution.†   (source)
  • If this naming revolution was indeed inspired by Black Power, it would be one of the movement's most enduring remnants.†   (source)
  • "The people of iran wanted revolution," he admitted to me quietly.†   (source)
  • Are we in the midst of a private revolution?†   (source)
  • Some two hundred years later, in 1979, a lawyer called Maurice Bishop started a new revolution, which the guidebook said was inspired by the Communist dictatorships in Cuba and Nicaragua.†   (source)
  • In Cuba the costs of revolution are very high.†   (source)
  • As I sit here and breathe, I never thought the good God would let me live to see someone walk into the middle of a revolution, pull a lugubrious face, and say, 'What's the matter?'†   (source)
  • But the fact that he'd actually twisted through a full revolution in the air stopped him cold.†   (source)
  • She'll be ready for Mazen's revolution, Keenan.†   (source)
  • How simplified and how standard this coming computer "revolution" will require our language to be are open questions.†   (source)
  • The boy gave a surprised grunt and suddenly lurched to the side, arms pinwheeling in slow, wide revolutions.†   (source)
  • Nothing changed as a result of this revolution, and yet everything changed.†   (source)
  • Airplanes had crashed and revolutions had erupted bloodily; holy men had spoken only to be rebuked by other holy men; poverty and disease had been found where everyone knew they could be found, but no man of consequence had been killed.†   (source)
  • We cannot see what is happening to this rock for the same reason that we cannot make out the tune on a record being played at the rate of one revolution every century.†   (source)
  • What I wanted to find out were the fundamental principles for starting a revolution.†   (source)
  • They held tight and close through two revolutions.†   (source)
  • She could see that I wasn't the kind of guy who could lead a revolution.†   (source)
  • A revolution swept across Mexico in 1910, precipitating a decade of civil war and anarchy.†   (source)
  • Manuel my b— Excuse me: Señor O'Kelly....will you head this revolution?†   (source)
  • Since her husband's death, Celia has devoted herself completely to the revolution.†   (source)
  • "True, it may be necessary, initially, to liquidate opponents of the revolution," Ludovico admitted.†   (source)
  • It's the greatest revolution in power motors since the internal-combustion enginegreater than that!†   (source)
  • Then revolution erupted in Iran.†   (source)
  • Also conspiracy to commit sabotage, conspiracy to incite revolution, terrorism, unauthorized national entry, traveling without passports, the carrying of firearms without permit, failure to register said weapons, conspiracy to do harm to His Imperial Majesty the Shahanshah of Iran.†   (source)
  • Josef won't tell me about the war, or about how he got out of Hungary during the revolution.†   (source)
  • My adolescence wasn't infused with the civil rights struggle, or the sexual revolution, or the Vietnam War, but with their aftermath.†   (source)
  • The thump was the fan oscillating from side to side where the frame made contact with the concrete on each revolution.†   (source)
  • The revolution lasted ten years, and in that time something like seven hundred Jewish communities were destroyed and about one hundred thousand Jews were slain.†   (source)
  • They had retired early and, while the train witnessed small revolutions among the local military, everyone felt that the anarchic events should be kept from the sleeping foreigners.†   (source)
  • I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers in the South have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it.†   (source)
  • It's true that there are those who think that the "symbolic" revolution among our sort of people doomed the Neanderthals, but this is, to put it mildly, a very speculative story, more "Star Trek" than "Mr. Wizard†   (source)
  • Hadn't he once wished, achingly, ardently, only that no revolution should ever take his wife from him?†   (source)
  • What'll happen to him when you start your revolution?†   (source)
  • This new technology is the other side of the computer revolution in manufacturing.†   (source)
  • And the Constitution is superior to any plan that the revolution has produced.†   (source)
  • And in his famous "cornerstone" speech of March 21, 1861, Alexander Stephens maintained that the Republican threat to slavery was "the immediate cause of the late rupture and the present revolution" of Confederate independence.†   (source)
  • Even if I'm not about to start a revolution.†   (source)
  • "The best thing about all these sad events," said La Fayette the day the lookout first spied the coast of Bretagne, "is' that we are friends now, and the revolution is assured of success because you are a part of it.†   (source)
  • He's writing a six-volume treatise on the Chinese revolution.†   (source)
  • It has always been my dream that the Institute and her sons would be at the vanguard of a moral revolution, a resurgence of the American dream itself.†   (source)
  • On the night of August z o, 1831, he said to six of his followers: "Our race is to be delivered from bondage, and God has appointed us as the men to do His bidding; I am told to slay all the whites we encounter, men, women and children ....it is necessary that in the commencement of this revolution all the whites we meet must die."†   (source)
  • It seemed to me a revolution in living and on a rapid increase.†   (source)
  • Trystero enjoyed counter-revolution in those days.†   (source)
  • She steadfastly refused to climb above three hundred feet, and the revolution indicators for both engines remained fixed at about three quarters of their proper readings.†   (source)
  • In the industrialized nations, a technological revolution is taking place—a revolution marked by rapid, dramatic advances in computers and telecommunications.†   (source)
  • The revolution had become"—he fumbled for the word— "un pe pourrie.†   (source)
  • Three more steps, and I held a bloody blade and saw three dead men and my horse, on which I had fled the revolution in France.†   (source)
  • That's why my attitude to the revolution is different from yours.†   (source)
  • But this peaceful revolution of hope cannot become the prey of hostile powers.†   (source)
  • It was a defective fan which clicked with each revolution, on and on.†   (source)
  • In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly.†   (source)
  • To be a girl in a shtetl in Russia, milking cows and daydreaming about revolution?†   (source)
  • You were conducting a small, one-woman revolution, one could say.†   (source)
  • But over the past few decades, the classical music world has undergone a revolution.†   (source)
  • But you know, these younger goddesses, they weren't around to fight the revolution.†   (source)
  • There is a powerful lesson in classical music's revolution.†   (source)
  • At the very least it takes a revolution, and that kind of thing doesn't happen in this country.†   (source)
  • He didn't know that the revolution was out of our hands.†   (source)
  • Congas played at night on the streets while teenyboppers gathered to talk of revolution.†   (source)
  • Many different belief systems powered the revolution of the planets and stars.†   (source)
  • The threat of the revolution hung over them, bringing famine and death in its wake.†   (source)
  • And if I really could save Peeta...in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal.†   (source)
  • But beyond that, in a time when things could still change, there were revolutions.†   (source)
  • What's more, they are detrimental to the revolution, so we must oppose them resolutely.†   (source)
  • Steve Jobs: February 24, 1955 Another of the pioneers of the software revolution was Eric Schmidt.†   (source)
  • He contains himself just long enough to say, "And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.†   (source)
  • A pawn in the monstrous bourgeois plot to subvert the revolution.†   (source)
  • Grindelwald and I, the glorious young leaders of the revolution.†   (source)
  • The wheel needed twenty minutes for a single revolution.†   (source)
  • It's the revolution that's shooting you.†   (source)
  • In 1791—two years after the revolution—she published a declaration on the rights of women.†   (source)
  • That's the spirit of the revolution, right?†   (source)
  • I remember thinking that was the gift the leader of our revolution should have.†   (source)
  • In his reedy, piping voice he urged them on to revolution.†   (source)
  • "James is going through his revolution," my siblings snickered.†   (source)
  • In the revolution she had seen and heard worse things than this.†   (source)
  • I felt a flush of embarrassment to be caught shopping when I should have been plotting a revolution.†   (source)
  • But how can we put personal matters ahead of the revolution?†   (source)
  • But in 1543 a little book was published entitled On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.†   (source)
  • the personal computer revolution happened, and they had their ten thousand hours in.†   (source)
  • I must now become the actual leader, the face, the voice, the embodiment of the revolution.†   (source)
  • Get the kids into the bathroom so they don't get in the way of the revolution.†   (source)
  • We are also seeing one of history's great cultural revolutions.†   (source)
  • That was the computer industry to those people, and it had nothing to do with this new revolution.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I think revolution has become something like a habit for Minerva.†   (source)
  • And uprisings have been known to lead to revolution.†   (source)
  • Two factions were fighting to lead the revolution in the factory.†   (source)
  • Ages ago, it seemed now The exercises I used to do to get in shape for the revolution!†   (source)
  • The gringos will take over the revolution.†   (source)
  • That would be resisting the revolution—she would have been beaten to ...†   (source)
  • "Oh yes," I hear one of the women say, "we spent a revolution there."†   (source)
  • We were proud to be part of the revolution, excited to be doing such an important job.†   (source)
  • Here is the opportunity for you to help Chairman Mao's revolution.†   (source)
  • Sonia reminds me we have to make sacrifices for the revolution.†   (source)
  • And I begin to understand the revolution in a new way.†   (source)
  • Now I can use my talents for the revolution.†   (source)
  • He was spending every moment too worried about me to pay careful enough attention to the revolution.†   (source)
  • What's more important, romance or revolution?†   (source)
  • He was going to work several revolutions at one time.†   (source)
  • All of them were set free during our spell of revolutions.†   (source)
  • The purity of the revolution is the cover but it's the numbers that frighten them.†   (source)
  • It was in such places that he had first sensed the rising tide of revolution.†   (source)
  • "I'm going to stop a revolution," I say.†   (source)
  • Then —when the weak mortals depend on us for everything—the revolution will begin!†   (source)
  • The Swinging Sixties brought about more than just a sexual revolution.†   (source)
  • The dancers bow to one another and slowly they begin their revolutions.†   (source)
  • It's still a guerrilla revolution after all!†   (source)
  • The march from revolution to revolution, from struggle to struggle, ever onward.†   (source)
  • But I'm only studying black history and the science of revolution, and I let her know that.†   (source)
  • Newspapers regularly featured headlines like "REVOLUTION ON MILITARY BASIS."†   (source)
  • Because revolution — armed uprising — requires not only dissatisfaction but aggressiveness.†   (source)
  • Frustrated, El Líder went home, rested his pitching arm, and started a revolution in the mountains.†   (source)
  • But in the revolution, even the privates became powerful.†   (source)
  • All revolutions believe they are conceived in purity, the purity of the cause is everything.†   (source)
  • We saw these effects during the revolution.†   (source)
  • And the van, stopped in the street, its rooftop antenna still turning slow revolutions.†   (source)
  • "You know, the city is still on the verge of revolution," she says, and the light turns blue.†   (source)
  • Ultimately, women like those in Kasturba Nagar need to join the human rights revolution themselves.†   (source)
  • I'm not the guy to help those people fight their revolution.†   (source)
  • —So if I start a democratic revolution here, you would support me?†   (source)
  • There were months in the revolution when the entire campaign was financed out of his pocket.†   (source)
  • The revolution took place in our home as well as in Iran.†   (source)
  • Then Papi went down for a trial visit, and a revolution broke out, a minor one, but still.†   (source)
  • Her own idea; Lenore did not then know that revolution was brewing.†   (source)
  • The revolution that topples the gunslinger's "world of light"?†   (source)
  • As a researcher, as a scientist, and because of the revolution, we were proud.†   (source)
  • A wealthy Cuban had owned it, and fled during the revolution.†   (source)
  • The revolution made us zealous protectors of our liberty.†   (source)
  • It was a regular revolution: constant skirmishes.†   (source)
  • Javier is wearing his Pioneers uniform, bright and new as the revolution, as his optimistic face.†   (source)
  • The Major added, "Can anyone define why there has never been revolution against our system?†   (source)
  • When I start the revolution, I'll at least have you on my side.†   (source)
  • But are you seriously suggesting that this machine can predict the outcome of a revolution?†   (source)
  • I didn't know he was talking about leading some freakin' revolution!†   (source)
  • The men had been planning revolution, so people said, and this was the Emperor's response.†   (source)
  • Mark could imagine the headline:local boy flumed across the universe to lead revolution.†   (source)
  • Look at me...They say I'm rebellious, but it was rebels who made the revolution!†   (source)
  • The fact that we were able to fight a revolution for independence proves that some liberty existed.†   (source)
  • The revolution in the old country had failed.†   (source)
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