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Portuguese naval vessels were very disruptive to the commerce of Portugal's enemies within the western Indian Ocean and were able to demand high tariffs on items transported through the area, given their strategic control of ports and shipping lanes.

The kind of disruptive moment that only a few knew in the 1880s became a common occurrence.

If some existing technology or company whose benefits are largely based on network effects starts to lose market share against a challenger such as a disruptive technology or open standards based competition, the benefits of network effects will reduce for the incumbent, and increase for the challenger.

If they formed in their current locations, their orbits must originally have been circular ; otherwise accretion ( the coalescence of smaller bodies into larger ones ) would not have been possible because the large relative velocities between planetesimals would have been too disruptive.

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

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.

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

Internet Protocol ( IP ) telephony ( also known as Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP ), is a disruptive technology that is rapidly gaining ground against traditional telephone network technologies.

Although his way of behaving is neither disruptive nor violent at the beginning of the book, he does, at that time, express an unquenchable desire to hunt and kill a pig and spends hours in solitude traversing the island.

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

Most of the Founding Fathers rejected political parties as divisive and disruptive.

This finish remained in use until the change of role to a low-level one, whereupon the scheme was altered to a disruptive pattern of grey / green upper surfaces, with light grey under surfaces.

After reports from the Red Flag exercises in Nevada in the late 1970s that the light grey under surfaces became highly visible against the ground when the aircraft banked steeply at the low altitudes it was assigned to, the disruptive pattern was later continued to include the under surfaces as well on all Vulcans.

The project fell through when he insisted on filming in 3-D, which the Wagner family found too costly and disruptive.

I responded to the challenge by becoming that alarming, hazardous, sexually disruptive woman.

At least two experiments indicate that the disruptive colouration is an effective means of confusing the visual system of flies, in one case the blood-sucking tsetse fly, in another horseflies ( tabanids ).

Desmond responds that while there is no doubt that rechargeable batteries derive their energy from power stations ( when not charged on board by solar and wind generation ), noisier internal-combustion-engined boats obtain their fuel from even further away and that, once installed a power cable is less environmentally disruptive than a petrol station.

The disruptive, expressionist element in it is even contrary to the spirit of Cubism, which looked at the world in a detached, realistic spirit.

The first of a series of disruptive and new perspectives came from John Wycliffe at Oxford University, then from Jan Hus at the University of Prague.

The B-ISDN vision has been overtaken by other disruptive technologies used in the Internet.

Sometimes chat room venues are moderated either by limiting who is allowed to speak ( not common ), by having comments be approved by moderators ( often presented as asking questions of a guest or celebrity ), or by having moderation volunteers patrol the venue watching for disruptive or otherwise undesirable behaviour.

The impact of Europeans was profoundly disruptive to Aboriginal life and, though the extent of violence is debated, there was considerable conflict on the frontier.

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

The risk posed by the threat is usually statistical in nature, so much of the work in threat characterisation and standards setting is based on reducing the probability of disruptive EMI to an acceptable level, rather than its assured elimination.