The ideological battle and the power struggle between the two blocks plunged a substantial number of African countries into armed civil conflicts.
Quotes about plunged (16 Quotes)
In garden sanctuaried sweet,
Full favoured by the steadfast sun,
plunged in the Past, a life complete
He lived.
My trust in you is broken and I am plunged into despair for the animals.
Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements made at Yalta completely about elections that were supposed to be held immediately in Poland, and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.
Do you so love the truth and the right that you welcome, or at least submit willingly to, the idea of an exposure of what in you is yet unknown to yourself an exposure that may redound to the glory of the truth by making you ashamed and humbled... Are you willing to be made glad that you were wrong when you thought others were wrong... We may trust God with our past as heartily as with our future. It will not hurt us so long as we do not try to hide things, so long as we are ready to bow our heads in hearty shame where it is fit that we should be ashamed. For to be ashamed is a holy and blessed thing. Shame is a thing to shame only those who want to appear, not those who want to be. Shame is to shame those who want to pass their examination, not those who would get into the heart of things... To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
My popularity plunged three years ago and I didn't try to court publicity.
I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
Ahead of the Gulf War the price of crude oil jumped up to about 40 a barrel, but when it was announced they would use the reserve the price immediately plunged back. After that not much was done. The intended objective was accomplished.
There are two situations that make interesting stories when an extraordinary person is plunged into the commonplace, and when an ordinary person gets involved in extraordinary events.
I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.
I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing ... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.
I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be The waves that plunged along the shore Said only 'Dreamer, dream no more '
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.