The technological developments of recent years - the ability to isolate, move and modify genes - represent a true revolution.

BBC: The power of genes

Libya was the Arab Spring's first true revolution, the only one in which the revolutionaries now hold the levers of power.

CNN: Jubilation and hard work ahead for Libya

And this willingness marks a true revolution.

ECONOMIST: Spirits

Now, if only someone could fix that dodgy power grid, a true consumer revolution could indeed be in the making.

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Like the many small, incremental improvements that, when added together, result in Moore's law, the two sides' respective contributions do not in themselves constitute a true technological revolution.

ECONOMIST: Genetic warfare

Many of the claims made for the digital revolution have turned out to be false, and the reason is almost invariably that their makers have failed to understand the true complexity of the world in which the revolution is taking place.

ECONOMIST: Predictions about technology

The interest-based, mutual benefit, principled, pie-expanding, value-creating negotiation revolution permits women to have their cake (earn their true value) and eat it too (delivering equal value to their negotiation partner and therefore enhancing rather than harming the relationship).

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Even when the French revolution finally came, its self-appointed guardians had no place for the philosophy of the true radicals.

ECONOMIST: Atheism and the Enlightenment