Disturbances
[dɪs'tɝbəns]
Examples
- The New England fishery, in particular, was, before the late disturbances, one of the most important, perhaps, in the world. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The permission to strike when insulted will be an 'antidote' to the knife and will prevent disturbances in the State. Plato. The Republic.
- Wireless signals are in reality wave motions in the magnetic forces of the earth, or, in other words, disturbances of those forces. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- There are a number of kinds of interference which arise from electrical disturbances in the earth’s atmosphere. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Before the commencement of the present disturbances, the colony assemblies had not only the legislative, but a part of the executive power. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- I go to look, not to make disturbances. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The disturbances which reach the ear from carriage, waves, and leaves are irregular both in time and strength, and irritate the ear, causing the sensation which we call noise. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- By an ironical accident the new system of disturbances was preceded by a peace festival in London, the Great Exhibition of 1851. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Pride meets with provocations and disturbances upon almost every occasion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Close upon these disturbances, and probably connected with them, came a widespread peasants' revolt throughout Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then all was still for a few minutes more; and then there was the moving of chairs, the raised voices, all the little disturbances of leave-taking. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The disturbances produced in America by Mr. Grenville's stamp-act, and the opposition made to it, are well known. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- That same growth of scientific knowledge from which sprang the mechanical revolution was the moving cause of these religious disturbances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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