Sentence examples for ruction from inspiring English sources
noun
A noisy quarrel or fight.
They might as well have spared themselves the effort: first Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, and then Tony Blair made clear that PFI was here to stay.The ruction resembles one of the theological disputes that used to rock the early Christian church.
On her follow-up to Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, Neko Case replaces the animal metaphors with a new allegorical system in which elemental ruction conveys the surging of emotions.
In the ruction, beyond the bear and the tidal force of all those people, stood a horse.
Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, is the out-er who has caused the biggest ruction, declaring his position with much fanfare in February.
He speculates that Grooms may have heard "ruction," one of the possible roots of "ruckus," in "construction" and then had "the inspired thought of a ruckus being constructed rather than merely breaking out or erupting.
Both are huge tasks, and the first would make the second harder if the ructions caused by economic restructuring take on a religious form.
He apparently feared being killed, probably as a result of ructions in his own movement.
The unequal treatment has caused ructions, especially among hedge funds that had bought the stock hoping to profit from the difference between the price it was trading at and the price at which a takeover was expected to be agreed.
Yet in domestic policy she is hamstrung by an unwieldy coalition and Germany's federal structure.The grand coalition of her Christian Democrats (CDU, plus Bavaria's CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD), which took office in November 2005, may well limp on to the next election in 2009, but every day it seems to be hit by fresh internal ructions.
All say that the ructions are the work of small minorities.
The outgoing boss will retain the chairman's post for seven months, but as this week's memo made clear, there is no doubt that the new man is already in charge and raring to go.In some ways, the recent ructions at Pfizer are a reflection of wider troubles facing big drug firms.
