social unrest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandunrest
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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unrest
noun[U]
uk/ʌnˈrest/us/ʌnˈrest/
disagreements or fighting between different groups ...
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(Definition ofsocialandunrestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofsocial unrest
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Neither nationalism norsocialunrestrocked the provisional republic.
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Nor do they feature thesocialunrestand anarchism common to other factory melodramas.
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This, coupled with the dislocation caused by the steam-based industrial revolution, engendered considerablesocialunrest.
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As can be expected, the crisis of foodstuffs led tosocialunrest.
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As the economy on the island did not flourish,socialunrestdid.
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The festival, however, did not flourish again immediately, due to continued fighting andsocialunrest.
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Imagine a political elite confronting the prospect ofsocialunrest.
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But, as soon as the war ended,socialunrestspread rapidly because of fierce inflation and other factors.
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It has been accompanied by adverse environmental impacts resulting from political instability,socialunrest, and inadequate employment creation in lowland agriculture and in the cities.
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Socialunrestthen rises, and support for radical opposition groups grows.
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The possibility ofsocialunrestamong pensioners where enterprises and municipalities were unable to pay the bill was a further problem.
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Yet the potential forsocialunrestwas always contained and rarely threatened to spiral out of control.
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If terminator varieties can render the farm-saved seed of non-terminator varieties sterile, even in limited number of situations, there will a potential for a great deal ofsocialunrest.
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The coincidence of both urban fires and popular protest with the drier summer months probably reinforced a correlation, too, betweensocialunrestand suspicion of arson.
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In this time ofsocialunrest, the state sought to instil qualities which would lead to harmony and social unity and counter individuality and social disintegration.
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Given his historical period, one of greatsocialunrest, he might have been asking about a visitor who was returning from a forced labour camp.
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In such a period of extreme distress it might be expected thatsocialunrestwould have been far more extensive.
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They might well deliver on the promise initially, for to fail to do so would provoke thesocialunrestthey currently fear.
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Their earlier argument claimed that franchise extension constituted a credible means by which a political elite could promise redistribution and thus avertsocialunrest.
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