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- verb Present participle of
destabilise .
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Examples
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Labour is succeeding in destabilising the Tories, sapping their confidence and wrong footing them on a daily basis.
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Labour is succeeding in destabilising the Tories, sapping their confidence and wrong footing them on a daily basis.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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If these structures are not exposed, they remain available to those in our country who have not given up the idea of destabilising our country through violence means.
Statement on the Report of the TRC Joint Sitting of the Houses of Parliament 1999
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If these structures are not exposed, they remain available to those in our country who have not given up the idea of destabilising our country through violence means.
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This US deal includes significant offensive capabilities? thus the repeated warnings from Tehran about it being "destabilising".
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June 27 run-off election would be "destabilising".
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They did it as "an act of anti-war protest", with which I had a great deal of sympathy, though remember this was the time of the first Gulf War, when our school radio was closed down for fear of broadcasting "destabilising" content, i.e.
Flanders fields Alistair Myles 2005
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They did it as "an act of anti-war protest", with which I had a great deal of sympathy, though remember this was the time of the first Gulf War, when our school radio was closed down for fear of broadcasting "destabilising" content, i.e.
Archive 2005-11-01 Alistair Myles 2005
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Middle East peace quartet, said the release of the confidential documents prepared by Palestinian negotiators had been "destabilising".
The Guardian World News Andrew Sparrow 2011
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Blair says leak of Palestine papers 'destabilising' for peace process
The Guardian World News Andrew Sparrow 2011
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