Age also factors in, with studies showing children and elderly people to be most vulnerable to sound disruptions.
We will do everything we can to minimize the sound and disruption during renovation.
The market-oriented policies of the new government meant that the airline would remain operationally independent, and under Captain Bisrat Nigatu the airline remained fiscally sound, despite disruptions caused by the Eritrean-Ethiopian War.
A sound is a disruption of the air, and it doesn't so much die as recede until it subsides beneath the level of the world's random noise and can no longer be recovered, like a face that is lost in a crowd.
He doesn't want dozens of lorries driving daily along the narrow roads nor the threat of sound and light disruption.
Our main finding shows that the articulatory motor cortex affects early auditory discrimination of speech sounds (starting within 200 ms after the onset of sound): TMS-induced disruption of the motor lip representation suppressed MMN responses elicited by occasional phonetic and intensity changes in unattended sequences of speech sounds.
Measured disruption sounds sensible, but it doesn't dazzle venture capitalists in the way that Kalanick's ruthless growth strategy evidently did.
Trump's brash, acid rhetoric sounds like creative disruption to his supporters, but comes off as narrowness and intolerance to those who find him alienating.
Mr. Bley, the pianist, in his moderately self-effacing way, is a trickster: he can make harmonic disruptions sound bouncy and country, and that's also one of the trademarks of Mr. Haden, the great bassist.
While there are clever rain-gathering and wind-measuring devices that rely on disruption of sound waves to arrive at totals, traditional spinning wind cups, weather vanes and rain gauges tend to be less prone to false disturbances, like a really loud cricket.
