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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of destabilise.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.”

    Waldo Jaquith - 35k languish in secret prisons. 2006

  • 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.

    Mercury,Mars can destroy Earth 2008

  • The financial sector is largely superfluous, and that is a good thing, because this sector produces nothing and destabilises the economy.

    A far more efficient economic system is possible 2008

  • In other words, removing the context of battle destabilises battlefield resistance techniques.

    Waldo Jaquith - 35k languish in secret prisons. 2006

  • 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

  • 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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