Disturbance
in sentence
105 examples of Disturbance in a sentence
If a microphone is placed in front of a loudspeaker, eventually some
disturbance
will cause the system to produce a painful wail as sound loops from the loudspeaker to the microphone and back, over and over.
The new equations showed that light is a moving, self-renewing
disturbance
in electrical and magnetic fields, and they predicted that new kinds of disturbances are possible.
Another limitation of organic production is that it works against the best approach to enhancing soil quality – namely, the minimization of soil
disturbance
(such as that caused by plowing or tilling), combined with the use of cover crops.
That is basically the definition of resilience: the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance, re-organize, and keep functioning in much the same way as before.
On the contrary, trying to prevent change and
disturbance
to a system reduces its resilience.
Duwe found that 60% of the perpetrators had either been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder or exhibited signs of serious mental
disturbance
before the attack.
In the UK, every financial
disturbance
leads to calls to revamp the system.
Hu Shisheng, a leading South Asia strategic analyst at the China Institutes for Contemporary International Relations, has suggested that such visits do not mean that “India-China relations are [in a state of] disturbance,” though the potential for trouble remains high.
There is no way to achieve lift without creating a vast amount of both noise and air
disturbance.
China’s opening gambit – to compel the international community to recognize the existence of a dispute – has been successful, and portends further
disturbance
of the status quo.
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, recall, marveled at capitalism’s “constant revolutionizing of production,” but noted that this meant “uninterrupted
disturbance
of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation.”
Revisiting the White Swans of 2020NEW YORK – In February, I warned that any number of foreseeable crises – “white swans” – could trigger a massive global
disturbance
this year.
For example, every manganese nodule mining operation will plow through the upper 10-20 centimeters of mineable seabed measuring 200-800 square kilometers (77-309 square miles) every year for 30 years, causing major
disturbance
to at least three times as much seafloor.
It was time, for now another
disturbance
broke out, and she had to make peace between Lénore and Henri, who at last awoke.
But a
disturbance
on the other side of the wall cut short her speech.
the strata, a general
disturbance
in the layers, which certainly announced that they were approaching a fault; and, in fact, they soon came across this fault which the engineers, in spite of considerable knowledge of the soil, were still ignorant of.
When she perceived that the child had fled, she shouted and brandished her lean arms, while Pierron, annoyed at the disturbance, strolled quietly away with the air of a husband who can amuse himself with a good conscience, knowing that his wife also has her little amusements.
"Citizens!" he shouted, dominating the disturbance, "here are the cards of membership.
"It seems that some blusterers are making a
disturbance
down there.
The twilight was already darkening the room; it was five o'clock when a
disturbance
made M. Hennebeau jump, as he sat dazed and inert with his elbows in his papers.
But it is my duty to prevent
disturbance.
The soldiers executed the order, but the
disturbance
increased, the blustering, and the mockery.
The fall of Estelle, who had been crawling on all fours, increased the
disturbance.
But the uneasiness of her new position, or perhaps the
disturbance
caused by the presence of this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with rose-coloured wings, hung in the splendour of the skies of poesy; and now she could not think that the calm in which she lived was the happiness she had dreamed.
The Two Gentlemen of Verona_One evening as the sun set, sitting by his mistress, at the end of the orchard, safe from disturbance, he was deep in thought.
'I do not think so,' M. de La Mole resumed after the
disturbance.
It was the washerwoman whom K. had recognised as a likely source of
disturbance
as soon as she had entered.
He looked round and listened to find out if there might be any
disturbance
from any of the surrounding rooms, everywhere was quiet, the only thing to be heard was the conversation from the dining room and Mrs. Grubach's voice from the passage leading to the kitchen.
falling," "atmospheric disturbance, passing in an oblique line over Southern Europe," and "pressure increasing," to very much upset us: and so, finding that he could not make us wretched, and was only wasting his time, he sneaked the cigarette that I had carefully rolled up for myself, and went.
But no enemy, nor any
disturbance
whatever, interfered with their progress, and they reached the Locusts just as the sun was throwing his setting rays on the valley, and tingeing the tops of the leafless trees with gold.
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