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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
destabilise .
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Examples
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He said he had made sacrifices in his position in government for 12 years and therefore was not going to be "destabilised" at the last minute.
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The World Game Ghana 'destabilised' before clash -
BBC - Ouch 2010
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The World Game Ghana 'destabilised' before clash -
BBC - Ouch 2010
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The World Game Ghana 'destabilised' before clash -
BBC - Ouch 2010
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Meaning is, as they say, "destabilised" and, unmoored from the author's intent, imagination can run wild.
davidthompson 2009
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Earlier this week the all-party business and enterprise select committee reported that government indecision over the account had "destabilised" the Post Office, and the Liberal Democrats staged a Commons debate warning that the uncertainty was leaving the Post Office in a parlous state.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Allegra Stratton Patrick Wintour 2008
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He said he had made sacrifices in his position in government for 12 years and therefore was not going to be "destabilised" at the last minute.
IOL: News 2008
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Then Burnham said free schools were a "free-for-all, where good schools can be destabilised and where teachers can be employed without teaching qualifications".
Labour would back 'free schools', says party's new education spokesman 2011
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In an interview to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the former prime minister warns that the Middle East would be "very, very badly" destabilised if Iran acquired nuclear weapons.
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The protests destabilised the ailing administration of Singh, which imprisoned more than 1,000 activists.
Indian activist Anna Hazare on hunger strike as MPs debate anti-graft bill 2011
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