Sentence examples for was so disrupted from inspiring English sources

Why was it that the peace in this normally calm college town was so disrupted?

The Steelers (2-1) ran for only 33 yards, and Roethlisberger's rhythm was so disrupted in the second half that he missed even routine throws.

Tribes were killed off or dispersed by battle, disease, and slavery, or their social organization was so disrupted that normal pursuits were destroyed and their energies were spent on survival.

This time there was a warning – England's whole strategy has been predicated on the probability of rain on the last two days of the second Test – so it will not have come as a great surprise that the penultimate day was so disrupted that there was no play possible between lunch and 5.10pm, at which point 22 overs were left to bowl.

"Everything was so disrupted that their income stopped, their offices were destroyed," said Dr. Wendy Matos, executive director of the University of Puerto Rico's faculty practice plan.

His parents' lives had been so disrupted and diminished by the war that they were determined that the future in Europe should be different for their four children.

Nowhere but in Oregon has the school calendar been so disrupted, but a majority of the nation's 15,000 public school districts are facing financial difficulties of varying severity, Dan Fuller, a lobbyist for the National School Boards Association, said.

He then thanked me for what I had done for him and reminded me of how I had encouraged him to make the most of the training courses we had found for him – as his education had been so disrupted.

Already some ships have been turned away from British ports, and the number would have been greater had continental shipping and docks not been so disrupted by snow and gales.Food.Food

Perhaps it's a compliment, of sorts: some Scottish screenings of Peter Mullan's new film Neds, about a bright teenager, John McGill, who ends up in a gang in 1970s Glasgow, have been so disrupted by exactly the kinds of teenagers the film portrays that security guards have had to be posted in the aisles.

If a country manages migration for the economic benefit of its own citizens, it may hesitate to accept newcomers who speak only their own language, have little education, and whose years have been so disrupted by war and brutality that they may find it hard to live normal and productive lives.And yet, that too may be the wrong answer, as is clear from the stories of Ms Moorehead's Liberians.