9 sentences with 'revolutions'

Example sentences and phrases with the word revolutions and other words derived from it.


« Instead of starting revolutions, the workers were buying automobiles. »
« A series of revolutions shook much of Europe in 1848, but after them conservative monarchs regained control almost everywhere. »
« The most obvious and spectacular expression of that disruption came in a pair of political revolutions: first in Britain's American colonies in the 1770s, and then in France from the 1780s onwards. »
« Moreover, the course of these revolutions together with the work of thinkers, writers and artists helped to create a new concept of national identity that was poised to take European politics by storm. »
« There was a huge revolutionary explosion across Europe in 1848. From Paris to Vienna to Prague, Europeans rose up and temporarily overthrew their monarchs. In the end, however, the revolutions collapsed. »
« It was this latter conscious bourgeoisie that would play an important role in the revolutions of the end of the century. The bourgeois class (literate and urban) was also among those most interested in the ideas of the Enlightenment. »
« In both revolutions, ideas that had remained in the abstract during the Enlightenment manifested themselves in the form of new constitutions, laws and principles of government, and in both cases, one of the by-products was violent upheaval. »
« In some ways, in contrast to the abstract nature of national identity among nationalists, liberalism had direct beliefs, all of them reflecting not only abstract theories but also the concrete examples of the American and French liberal revolutions of the previous century. »
« A peculiar phenomenon derived from the importance of capitals was that political revolutions often began as single-city revolutions: if a mob could take to the streets of Paris, for example, it could well send the king running for the proverbial hills and declare a new government (which happened in 1830 and 1848). »

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