world-movement

Little did she realize that the tortuous and distorted evolution of the next three centuries would compel a Third Revolt and a Fourth Revolt, and many Revolts, all drowned in seas of blood, ere the world-movement of labor should come into its own.

Jack London: The Iron Heel 2010

If we failed, we would share the fate of all who fail; but we were sure that we would win, that we should score the first great triumph in a mighty world-movement.

The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

Science, it is maintained, clearly shows that man belongs to a great world-movement, in relation to which his whole life and work are completely determined.

Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

To say that this or that manufacture is not so prosperous in Ireland as it was a century ago before power looms, spindles, steamships, and railways came to revolutionise industry, is simply to say that Ireland, like other countries, has had its part, for better or for worse, in the great world-movement of nineteenth-century industry.

Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union Various

Our proposition is a very simple one-that in the furtherance of this great world-movement the point of least resistance should be attacked, and that, if we cannot further good-will and prevent misunderstanding amongst nations whose people speak the same language, what earthly chance have we of furthering good-will between two peoples who do not speak the same language?

World Conspiracy Against Anglo-American Friendship 1920

I would wish that so courageous a man should seek his own end, should voluntarily efface himself from the path of that world-movement which he is powerless to check.

The Devil Doctor Sax Rohmer 1921

I would wish that so courageous a man should seek his own end, should voluntarily efface himself from the path of that world-movement which he is powerless to check.

The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu Sax Rohmer 1921

The part to be assigned to each intrigue in preparing the world-movement of which the French Revolution was the first expression is a question on which no one can speak with certainty.

Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

Thus, for instance, if the sociologist studies the question of woman suffrage, it appears as a phase in a world-movement.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The transmigration of the individual soul is no mere episode of a universal world-movement, predestined and unchangeable.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913