Sentence examples for thus upsetting from inspiring English sources

Several years ago she entered a Uruguayan open event, traditionally reserved for men, thus upsetting the nation's gold authorities-and she won.

However, at the same time, she looked dourly forward to the prospect of humanity's extinction through our insistence on trying to dominate, rather than live harmoniously with, nature and thus upsetting the self-regulatory processes.

Some were just people taking great delight in refusing to behave as experts predicted, and thus upsetting the expected order of events; tiny, thrilling acts of bolshiness affording glimpses into the national psyche.

But their dates -- at least 1,000 years before historians thought the Chinese first met Europeans -- implied that the horses, chariots and bronze swords accompanying the mummies had been introduced into China by Europeans, thus upsetting the amour-propre of the Chinese.

THE DOGMA OF THE New Economy is that technology will make business more profitable, thus upsetting all the old rules about business valuation.

Now France, followed by a still more reluctant Germany, is being obliged to take defense seriously for the first time in many years, thus upsetting all its budget calculations.

A German attempt to check the French in Morocco in 1905 (the Tangier Incident, or First Moroccan Crisis), and thus upset the Entente, served only to strengthen it.

The elections to the Constituent Cortes strengthened the Socialists and Left Republicans and thus upset the parliamentary balance between moderate Catholic Republicans and the left.

Washington's current agitation against North Korea's nukes and missiles, he suggests, bespeaks not a fear of attack but concern that Japan and South Korea would also soon want advanced weapons and thus upset the American protectorate.

Hymenoptera, the most prevalent and successful of insect parasites, exert a profound, if subtle, control over populations of other insects and certain other arthropods groups that might otherwise overpopulate and thus upset their particular ecosystem.

The rest of the time, a player on offense either is standing around recovering his breath or is on the move, foxlike, looking for openings, sizing up chances, attempting to screen off a defensive man by "coming off guys," as van Breda Kolff puts it and thus upset the balance of power.