This perturbs those such as Tom Harris, who says it would be "entirely impractical" to have MPs loyal to a Scottish leader but not to the prime minister.
This perturbs some of her supporters, who have endured jail and torture at the army's hands.
Although Ken Clarke's enthusiasm for the European Union (EU) perturbs influential party donors, the former chancellor of the exchequer may be brought back for his much-needed experience and common touch.
Mr Johnson's mission also perturbs reformist Tories close to Michael Gove, the education secretary.
Whereas the Conservative Party harbours a cacophony of voices on foreign policy, ranging from youthful neocons to grizzled realists, Labour has only a few mumbles.Yet Mr Brown's lack of sharp elbows on the world stage still perturbs many.
It neither surprises nor perturbs me that The Economist does not like populist politicians.Aaron MoweryDayton, TennesseeThat 70s showSIR – You really shouldn't be surprised that the late paintings of Titian are "among his finest" and not "an old man's doodles" ("Worth waiting for", March 8th).
He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1900 with a thesis an analysis of the way that Mars perturbs the orbit of the asteroid Eros that was very much within traditional mathematical astronomy.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion are just such an example, and in the two centuries after Newton's Principia the laws were applied to elaborate and arduous computations of the motion of all planets, not simply as isolated bodies attracted by the Sun but as a system in which every one perturbs the motion of the others by mutual gravitational interactions.
Rapid subduction of the cool oceanic lithosphere perturbs the thermal regime in such a way that high pressures can be obtained at relatively low temperatures, thereby generating blueschists and eclogites (high-pressure facies series) from ocean-floor basalts transported down the subduction zone.
The idea of a reunified Germany perturbs Gorbachev greatly--as he indicated in his remarks to Bush at Malta--as well as our major European allies.
No doubt they will have seen much worse, and they will also know that a bursting brain is no more real than a game of Quidditch, yet what perturbs me about a film as careful and as intelligent as "Drive" is its manifest delusion that, in refusing to look away from the minutiae of nastiness, it is actually drawing us closer to the truth about pain.
