noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
civil disturbances/strife (= civil unrest )
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Troops have been called in to deal with civil disturbances.
quell the violence/disturbance/riot etc
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Police used live ammunition to quell the disturbances.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
behavioural
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The fundamental issue in the current debate is whether environmental lead causes intellectual impairment or behavioural disturbances in children.
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The insidious course, the behavioural disturbances , and the distress of Alzheimer's disease make this uncommon.
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It was concluded that good schools can, and do, exert an important protective effect against behavioural disturbance .
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This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance .
civil
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He had chosen November 5 as a traditional day of civil disturbance .
emotional
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This progress occurs regardless of whether a child shows emotional and behavioural disturbance .
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Work inhibition is not caused by severe emotional disturbance .
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In other children the soiling indicates a marked level of emotional disturbance .
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No one should shoot up drugs because addiction, poor health, family disruption, emotional disturbances and death could follow.
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Parents of other children who had had polio told them to expect this emotional disturbance to last as long as six months.
further
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This action provoked further disturbances on the streets of Karachi and in other towns and cities.
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In their existing forms, reforms looked likely to lead to social unrest and further disturbances .
mental
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Physical disability or mental disturbance can lead to difficulties shopping for food, and in its preparation and cooking.
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She needed to learn as much as she could about this area of mental disturbance .
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Here he first showed signs of mental disturbance .
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But for every death there are at least 100 other people who suffer severe mental disturbances .
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A thought-provoking look at the ever-growing affliction of mental disturbance .
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Davis etal reviewed 157 necropsy-proven cases of multiple sclerosis and found 47% of patients with a mental disturbance .
other
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The Tambov revolt and other peasant disturbances were soon contained and squashed.
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This brief was subsequently widened to cover the occurrence of other disturbances during July 1981.
psychiatric
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Determinants of childhood disorder Emotional and conduct disorders are the most frequently encountered psychiatric disturbances of childhood.
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The prevalence of this dimension of psychiatric disturbance in institutions has not been reported.
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Is it the specific disorder, a particular personality trait associated with the disorder, or a general vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance ?
racial
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Along with hate crimes, police violence and abuse continued to incite racial disturbances in the early 1980s.
serious
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In July 1985 two serious disturbances occurred in Handsworth, but both were played down and went unreported in the media.
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Does he further accept that the report identifies that there has been serious disturbance in primary schools in recent years?
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For example, brain damage commonly leads to serious disturbances of memory.
■ NOUN
peasant
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But the sharp decline in peasant disturbances in the pre-war years pointed to peaceful development.
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The Tambov revolt and other peasant disturbances were soon contained and squashed.
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The sharp rise in peasant disturbances between 1857 and 1859 underlined the dangers of an excessively harsh settlement.
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Troops had to be used on a wide scale in the countryside and peasant disturbances continued through 1906 and into 1907.
sleep
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For example, faecal incontinence and sleep disturbance are often associated with the breakdown of caring arrangements leading to hospitalisation.
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These include bloating, changes in appetite, and sleep disturbances .
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There is some evidence that sleep disturbance in normal old men is more frequent than in normal old women.
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Now her symptoms include thinking and memory problems, sleep disturbances , heart palpitations, dizziness and weakness, Lopez said.
■ VERB
avoid
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The nesting trunk in the aviary is carefully screened to avoid disturbance .
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It is best done at this stage to avoid unnecessary disturbance later on.
cause
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They then distort the long-wave pattern which is controlling them, causing the next short-wave disturbances to move differently.
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Work inhibition is not caused by severe emotional disturbance .
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In 1957, Paisley and Wylie were charged with causing a disturbance in Donaghadee by preaching through a loud hailer.
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Thus, clinical disorders of volume are caused by disturbances of salt balance.
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This may cause disturbances in the basic organization.
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The advantage of this approach is that pain relief may be obtained without causing disturbance of sensation over the face and cornea.
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Binge-eating can cause menstrual disturbances , acute swelling of the stomach and also salivary gland enlargement.
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One athlete in particular, however, has caused more of a disturbance with his seeming lack of concern.
create
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But, as you will realise, the act of digging down towards the rabbit creates a lot of disturbance and vibration.
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Here to pester the animals, create the routine disturbances that made up their days.
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Paddington Station; it always creates a disturbance in me.
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The center had been created after disturbances caused by the questionnaires.
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Some say that the rising number of people in an area is bound to create occasional disturbances .
include
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These include a disturbance of oestrogen metabolism and a fault in oestrogen feedback to the hypothalamus.
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Other side effects include gastrointestinal disturbance , drowsiness, hair loss, and peripheral edema.
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Several theories of planetary formation include the possibility of disturbance to axial spins during the late stages of formation of a planet.
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The symptoms in case 2, which included gastrointestinal and autonomic disturbance , closely resembled those reported in past cases of mercury intoxication.
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Threats to its survival include habitat change, disturbance , egg collecting and severe winters.
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These would include access, environmental disturbance and noise, water levels and assured flow for water sweetening and so on.
lead
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For example, brain damage commonly leads to serious disturbances of memory.
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He points out that sensory deprivation often leads to disturbances in perception and thinking.
quell
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Extra police were called to quell the disturbance when, without provocation, Williamson punched Mr Coulthard.
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Or at least we would have had action to quell disturbances earlier.
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Extra police were called to quell the disturbance .
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As the measures of repression by the government grew, it became necessary to use the army to quell strikes and disturbances .
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According to Western press reports five people were killed and 200 injured as riot police tried to quell disturbances in Dhaka.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A sheriff's deputy went to investigate a family disturbance .
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Henderson claims he was suffering from extreme emotional disturbance when he attacked the woman.
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Israel was reported to be offering guidance to the army on controlling civil disturbances.
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Residents complained about the disturbance caused by the work on the roads.
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The government is introducing special new measures to deal with prison riots and disturbances.
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There is a fast-moving weather disturbance passing through Utah.
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There were minor disturbances in Amman during the recent by-elections.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Few people were out around Snowdrop Street and Marsh Lane police station, the scene of the disturbances the night before.
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Furthermore, the importance of predation can be seen as yet another element in the disturbance picture.
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Hicks paused before ringing the bell; there was some disturbance of women inside.
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In New Orleans in May 1861, disturbances among the slave population were suppressed by the militia.
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The center had been created after disturbances caused by the questionnaires.
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Those with well defined social support networks illustrate lower rates of psychological disturbance than their more isolated counterparts.