What could be more reasonable than to let May get on with the job undisturbed rather than have journalists, lobbyists and MPs constantly trying to distract or misrepresent her? Yet the more you think about it, the clearer it is that it's not very reasonable at all and that it should be challenged.
But let us not stop there, let us ask the difficult questions others would rather we left undisturbed.
It sits in his inner sanctum, where he likes to compose, undisturbed; or, rather, where he would compose, were it not for a nasty case of writer's block, compounded by failure of another kind, the poor lunk.
Yet Ian Jack would rather this image remained undisturbed: his introduction to Granta 95 (when he first criticised a then-unnamed Coake) argued that thanksgiving "only serves to remind us of the underlying effort, the pain given for our pleasure".
The CCPIA is not retrospective; therefore, its emphasis is on the protection of material with a still undisturbed context rather than on the return of material whose context is already lost.
Curtailing representations will produce new forms of social action rather than protect some undisturbed, preferred version of reality.
Selection of sweetgum and oaks for planting would restore historical composition better than planting of ash and other shade-tolerant species, which promotes conversion to forest types under undisturbed conditions rather than restoration of forests under historical disturbance regimes.
As a consequence of increased competition and/or larger water and nutrient requirements, older rather than younger trees, especially within undisturbed forest stands, appear less responsive to an enhanced carbon supply (McCarthy et al. 2010; Ryan 2013).
I said that undisturbed contentment felt to me rather close to smugness, and told him that I liked (as a matter of taste if not morality) personalities that had been stained by disappointment.
These, he found, were overwhelmingly in areas penetrated by settlers rather than in places where the Yanomami dwelt undisturbed.Something similar happened to chimpanzee researchers.
