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- noun Plural form of
disturbance .
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Examples
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She said there is no law to protect those who journalists who create what she described as "disturbances".
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She said there is no law to protect those who journalists who create what she described as "disturbances".
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Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade warned Australians to limit their travel in the capital, due to what it described as "disturbances" at two barracks.
USATODAY.com News 2012
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Sleep Problems short-term disturbances—Thinking too much.
The Secret Language of Your Body Inna Segal 2010
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Some theories or aspects of theories may account better for the leadership that handles short-term disturbances; other theories may deal better with the leadership that corrects chronic deficiencies over the long term.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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(AP) - At least 22 people were arrested in disturbances following Kentucky's 43-37, triple-overtime upset of then-No.
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Some theories or aspects of theories may account better for the leadership that handles short-term disturbances; other theories may deal better with the leadership that corrects chronic deficiencies over the long term.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership Bernard M. Bass 2008
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To investigate and thereby understand the cause of … disturbances is an aid to measures "deemed expedient to prevent a recurrence of similar disorders." —
'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005
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Others, such as some here, believe protestors are trying to make converts of spectators, and claim that blocking streets and creating disturbances is a self-defeating tactic.
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Cancer originates in disturbances in the genetic material of cells.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 - Presentation Speech 1989
slide183 commented on the word disturbances
i think interruption is the spice of life...
if we were always on the path and nothing moved us off it ... well ... life would be boring
not boring = disturbances
boring = bad
not bad = good
good = joy
therefore disturbances give me joy
April 7, 2008
bilby commented on the word disturbances
Bukowski would be prouda ya, slide :-)
April 7, 2008