Sentence examples for disrupting force from inspiring English sources

In a 2008 blog post, Mr. Feld said, "Over the past six months, I've become an incredible believer in the appeal of social gaming as a broad idea and see it as a disrupting force in the overall gaming industry".

Recently, Blaser evaluated the hydrodynamic disrupting force on a floc in an axisymmetrical straining flow.

Some critical points as our closing remarks: First, as the book focuses on socio-economic and other "soft" factors, the role of technology as a disrupting force of change is considered in a "black box" style.

Thus, the differential gene flow rate between both partners' populations is seen as a disrupting force for the compatibility between the fungus and the host grass, which is a basic condition for the effectiveness and prevalence of mutualism (see Glossary; Saikkonen et al. 2004; Thompson 2005).

Airports and harbours were entirely closed or badly disrupted, forcing emergency teams to try to reach survivors by foot – in many cases scrambling over debris hours at a time in order to access remote and ravaged neighbourhoods.

French law required a national consultation or debate on the waste dump to take place but it was troubled from the start; meetings were disrupted forcing it to conduct its deliberations online.

Construction work was seriously disrupted, forcing the Germans to abandon work on part of the complex.

Catch bonds might have evolved in the context of cell adhesion to further counterbalance the disrupting effect of force.

Photo: A rare spring northeaster swept the Eastern Seaboard yesterday, flooding roads, disrupting travel, forcing evacuations and closing ballparks.

Instead of Russia and China, we should be focussed mainly on "terrorist networks intent on repelling or disrupting the forces of globalization, potential pandemic disease like avian flu, or catastrophic changes in the earth's climate," and the way to make headway there is by bringing together multinational coalitions and adding new elements to the traditional foreign-policy tool kit.

For mitral annuloplasties requiring ring rigidity, we propose a ring design concept to potentially disrupt this force transfer and improve suture retention.