bloodless revolution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbloodlessandrevolution
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bloodless
adjective
uk/ˈblʌd.ləs/us/ˈblʌd.ləs/
A bloodless military operation involves ...
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revolution
noun
uk/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/us/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence ...
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(Definition ofbloodlessandrevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Abloodlessrevolutiontook place between 1945 and 1951.
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Here we shall be celebrating the glorious andbloodlessrevolution.
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That is where the alleged glorious revolution andbloodlessrevolutioncame from.
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There are two views on what people here refer to as the glorious andbloodlessrevolution.
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It has not been abloodlessrevolution—there are very few such revolutions.
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There cannot be abloodlessrevolutionunless there is considerable assent to it.
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It will be revolution, but it will bebloodlessrevolution.
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That is admitted by even those most rabid supporters of the alleged glorious andbloodlessrevolutionof 1688.
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We are witnessing and passively acquiescing in a quiet but hardlybloodlessrevolution.
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I submit that during the past three years or so, we have been going through a period ofbloodlessrevolutionin this country.
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I do not know whether some have felt that it may have been abloodlessrevolutionin the 1960s but it is not today.
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In 1989 and 1990, however, there was a virtuallybloodlessrevolution—a series of velvet revolutions—and we must be eternally grateful for that.
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We are living now with the consequences of that glorious andbloodlessrevolutionwhich led to the emergency provisions measure that we are debating today.
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In the end, it was not western pressure; the people of those countries defeated communist governments in a remarkable and almostbloodlessrevolution.
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They all began in 1688, and, whereas it may have been the glorious andbloodlessrevolutionover here, it was not over there.
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It may well be that we shall have anotherbloodlessrevolutionto help us to attain a position in the vanguard of progress.
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