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Cave-dwelling species are accustomed to a near-constant climate of temperature and humidity, and any disturbance can be disruptive to the species ' life cycles.

Nevertheless, with foresight and careful planning, some of the more disruptive and dangerous consequences of social change which have troubled other countries passing through this stage can be escaped.

The consolidation of duplicate support and development offices was costly and disruptive.

While the classic guidelines still apply, today's anti-guerrilla forces need to accept a more disruptive, disorderly and ambiguous mode of operation.

Initial symptoms in boys affected with the childhood cerebral form of ALD include emotional instability, hyperactivity and disruptive behavior at school.

Second, the common law evolves through a series of gradual steps, that gradually works out all the details, so that over a decade or more, the law can change substantially but without a sharp break, thereby reducing disruptive effects.

By aggregating together, nonpolar molecules reduce the surface area exposed to water and minimize their disruptive effect.

Thus, ISDN can be seen from this perspective as obsolete before it fairly started, having been overtaken in most places by the disruptive technology of ADSL.

" The notable African-American Marxist-Leninist Harry Haywood, who spent much time in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 30s, stated that although he had been somewhat interested in Trotsky ’ s ideas when he was young, he came to see it as " a disruptive force on the fringes of the international revolutionary movement " which eventually developed into " a counter-revolutionary conspiracy against the Party and the Soviet state.

** disruptive selection — competition favoring fishes at either extreme of body size and mouth size over those nearer the mean — coupled with:

This regime was criticised by teachers and school heads as greatly disruptive of the operation of the school, and by others as enabling schools to present an unrealistic picture of themselves that did not truly reflect the quality of teaching and learning in the school.

While basically synonymous with financial engineer, it implies adventurousness and fondness for disruptive innovation.

In folklore and the paranormal, a poltergeist is the apparent manifestation of an imperceptible but noisy, disruptive or destructive entity.

According to the Gesta Herewardi, Hereward was exiled at the age of eighteen for disobedience to his father and disruptive behaviour, and he was declared an outlaw by Edward the Confessor.

He was expelled from the Science Fiction League as " a disruptive influence " but was later reinstated.

One of the defendants, Bobby Seale, was disruptive in the court room and, as a result, was gagged and bound to his chair during the trial.

Structural arguments emphasize causes and solutions related to disruptive technologies and globalization.

The company had a history of science-based innovations following World War II and the strategy by management was research and " disruptive " and " on demand " product innovation.

Breakdown occurs quite abruptly ( typically in nanoseconds ), resulting in the formation of an electrically conductive path and a disruptive discharge through the material.

Bundaberg Rum has been labelled the drink for yobbos, after some bars reported that " bundy drinkers are a lot louder, and more disruptive than other patrons.

In 1945, the SS adopted the Leibermuster disruptive pattern that inspired many forms of modern battle dress, although it was not widely issued before the end of the war.

Though the war proved disruptive for Surrealism, the works continued.

There veterans, along with discontented urban elements, formed a nucleus of malcontents ripe for disruptive action.

Their bright colours are most likely a form of disruptive camouflage, similar to the stripes of a tiger.

Its essence lies in its attempt to recover previous order through the repression of disruptive forces.