As Hilaire Belloc said, terror causes a sudden "paralysis of the soul": the mind is destabilized; it resists complexity, becomes prone to misjudgments.
In brief, this impressively dynamic and very precise system that the bacterial cell uses to choose the site of division depends on the spontaneous nucleation of one filamentous structure (MinD) that is destabilized by a regulator (MinE).
In Kahn's book, the Doomsday Machine is an example of the sort of deterrent that appeals to the military mind but that is dangerously destabilizing.
"There's no doubt in my mind that much of our presence is destabilizing to the government," said one senior military officer.
MinD self-assembles on the bacterial membrane, and the MinD filaments are then destabilized by another protein factor, MinE.
But there are also lots of fun, oddball inclusions, like an abandoned building down by the river that has been transformed into a mind-destabilizing, high-concept homage to the writings of Sigmund Freud.
Another Min protein, MinC, co-localizes with MinD and acts as a repressor for the formation of the cell division site by destabilizing Ftz polymerization [ 36].
With Turkey capturing the hearts, minds and wallets of Arabs, Iran will increasingly find it harder to carry out its agenda of destabilizing the region and the globe.
One section of Law 88 forbids collaboration "in any way with foreign radio or television stations, newspapers, magazines or other mass media with the purpose of... destabilizing the country and destroying the socialist state," and was written with Radio and TV Martí in mind.
Napster was enormously destabilizing.
"This was very destabilizing.
