It was the first open challenge by a dissident movement to military leaders since the turbulent decades at the beginning of the century.

Certainly, this turbulent decade is no less deserving of an identity.

The 1840s were a turbulent decade in the Church of England.

The 1980s became a turbulent decade for the band.

As elsewhere in major US cities, the 1960s was a turbulent decade for the city.

The 1970's were a turbulent decade in the Bordeaux vineyards.

But the most turbulent decade followed the overthrow of the constitutional monarchy in 1958.

Matthias' reforms did not survive the turbulent decades that followed his reign.

She had lived through a turbulent decade in Salt Lake City.

To voters who remember that turbulent decade the comparison seems grotesquely overblown.