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  • verb Present participle of destabilize.

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Examples

  • The G-8 meeting also discussed North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, which they described as destabilizing for the region, and urged the Asian country to return to the six-party talks aimed at dismantling its nuclear program "without precondition."

    Bloomberg 2010

  • Associate history professor Jamie Warner lectured on "culture jamming," which she defined as destabilizing dominant media messages from within.

    The Parthenon 2008

  • If anyone at VOA promotes or attempts to promote genocide or "wantonly engages in destabilizing propaganda," not only will such persons surely find themselves walking the streets without a job, they are guaranteed to do some serious jail time.

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Let Ethiopians Hear America's Voice Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

  • If anyone at VOA promotes or attempts to promote genocide or "wantonly engages in destabilizing propaganda," not only will such persons surely find themselves walking the streets without a job, they are guaranteed to do some serious jail time.

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Let Ethiopians Hear America's Voice Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

  • Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.

    Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010

  • Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.

    Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010

  • It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective.

    Blitzer: Next president will dictate court's future 2008

  • Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.

    Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010

  • Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.

    Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010

  • Turkey should work with the U.S., given that a nuclear Iran, with proxy allies in the region, would be a long-term destabilizing factor that would ultimately change the region's strategic calculus, which currently favors Ankara's considerable economic incentives for stability and conventional military advantage over its competitors.

    Joshua W. Walker: Will Turkey Remain an American Ally? Joshua W. Walker 2010

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