Outsiders can help to preserve a space for moderates in the country and limit the disruption that might spread abroad.
And no one is dismissing the disruption that may come if some municipal bond issuers default on their payments.
Speakers said the city's situation was in part a result of the disruption that occurred in Lower Manhattan after the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.
We have seen the disruption that was caused to global food supplies, for instance, by severe droughts which wipe out yields of important crops.
Anxious to avoid the disruption that has marred the torch events in Paris and London, central Delhi was flooded with police officers.
"We're very concerned about the disruption that could be caused because of this, with people being pushed out of employer plans," he said.
Few executives, however, may face the disruption that greeted Paul Lloyd, chairman of R & B Falcon, an oil-drilling contractor, just as its annual meeting was getting under way in Houston last week.
Now, healthy and lined up next to each other in the Jets' new 4-3 dEllise, Ellis and Abraham showed, in just one day, flashes of the disruption that could send quarterbacks scrambling in terror.
It's possible that G.M. could achieve something like this, but it won't be easy given all the disruption that may result from negotiations with workers, suppliers and dealers as it rushes to meet other requirements attached to the government's loans.
The outcry highlighted the tension between the promise of free speech on campus and the search by administrators for a way to minimize the disruption that can be caused by demonstrations.
Among the panel's missions, he said, would be "to focus on the disruption that would occur in the local economy if you had to shut this facility down even for a short time".
