Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Quotes about abrupt (16 Quotes)
Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated religion for me is life.
This is an opportunity to look in-depth at the specific issues of long-term climate change, and the lessons that our paleontologists have shown about the risks of abrupt climate change and the issues of new energy systems to mitigate or avert some of the great risks that lie ahead.
During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.
I would advise the government to control the abrupt increase in dollar price to help sustain our investment.
A revolution, in politics, is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. The substitution of the rule of an administration for that of a ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch.
Now he has become, abrupt, an industry.
The parish I live in is a very abrupt, uneven country, full of hills and woods, and therefore full of birds.
While living, apparently, as modern men and women, using electric fans and electric irons, telephones and trains, and aeroplanes, when they can afford it, they nourish in their hearts a deep contempt for the childish conceit and bloated hopes of our age, and for the various recipes for saving, mankind, which zealous philosophers and politicians thrust into circulation. They know that nothing can save mankind, for mankind is reaching the end of its present cycle. The wave that carried it, for so mane millenniums, is about to break, with all the fury of acquired speed, and to merge once more into the depth of the unchanging Ocean of undifferentiated existence. It will rise again, some day, with abrupt majesty, for such is the law of waves. But in the meantime nothing can be done to stop it.
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
When that light went on, if you didn't notice it, he certainly did. I would be surprised if John is as abrupt and severe as the boss.
ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon-shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it.
To be able to see not only what Christopher was saying but also how this community was reacting to it. I mean there was an abrupt standing ovation.
That clot was the equivalent of a volcanic eruption. There was an abrupt cessation of blood flow, and her heart stopped working.
It's a very cruel, abrupt end. Not only the season, but the actual game. It was a great game between two very good teams. I've never been more proud of a group of guys.
As the value of assets and liabilities have risen relative to income, we have been confronted with the potential for our economies to exhibit larger and perhaps more abrupt responses to changes in factors affecting the balance sheets of households and businesses,