With the events of that day were linked, as cause and effect, many great political convulsions of Europe.

Analysts said Indonesia's economic reforms remained hostage to its political convulsions.

Russia's economic and political convulsions have not shaken its position as a cultural superpower.

Many had escaped the political and religious convulsions that had so often shaken the region.

The country's latest political convulsion claimed its first fatality today.

Alas, Russia is again on the brink of political and economic convulsions.

The talks here are occurring while at least three countries are in political and economic convulsions.

Then India set off five nuclear tests and Indonesia went into political convulsions.

But few other nations could cope with the sort of political and economic convulsions Russia has endured in recent years without going berserk.