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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
destabilise .
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Examples
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It examines the last months in the life of a small community of monks perched on the side of the Atlas mountains, as Islamic fundamentalism destabilises the surrounding area.
The unlikeliest box-office hit: a film about doomed French monks Vanessa Thorpe 2010
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Anything that destabilises or goes against the norm - by which I mean the norm of good manners and civil behaviour, not private sexuality - is eagerly grasped by garbage like Jack Straw who has a deep hatred of Britain because his father (who had been granted asylum) was jailed for refusing to serve with the armed forces and fight for Britain.
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But headbutts are rarely ever seen in the very final metres of a stage, mainly because walloping another cyclist with the head destabilises the bike.
Tour de France 2010: Mark Cavendish wins but Mark Renshaw disqualified William Fotheringham in Bourg-les-Valence 2010
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In this way he destabilises the traditional view that science can be distinguished from non-science on the basis of its inductive methodology; in contradistinction to this, Popper holds that there is no unique methodology specific to science.
Karl Popper Thornton, Stephen 2009
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I am, however, troubled by the specter of losing an American city because people like you counselled there are “other ways” such as “removing the context of battle destabilises battlefield resistance techniques.”
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Marcury and Mars tend to get thrown around the most when the solar system destabilises, because at 6% snd 11% of Earth's mass respectively, they are relatively easy to move.
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The financial sector is largely superfluous, and that is a good thing, because this sector produces nothing and destabilises the economy.
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In other words, removing the context of battle destabilises battlefield resistance techniques.
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And because wind power is so unpredictable and needs other sources available at a moment's notice, it is generally accepted that any contribution above 10 per cent made by wind to a grid dangerously destabilises it.
Archive 2007-12-01 Peter Troy 2007
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And because wind power is so unpredictable and needs other sources available at a moment's notice, it is generally accepted that any contribution above 10 per cent made by wind to a grid dangerously destabilises it.
The Madest Decision by British Ministers Peter Troy 2007
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