Synonym: riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent. Similar words: disruption, disrupt, eruption, corruption, interruption, captive, adaptive, receptive. Meaning: [-tɪv] adj. characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination.
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91. I have always avoided infidelity , not only for health reasons, but also because it seems to churn up disruptive and painful emotions.
92. Here is the deal. Apps can be a disruptive force for many existing software suites.
93. Japan's old-guard businesses think this would be unnecessarily disruptive. And Mr Son's brashness annoys many. One boss calls him a “parasite” who must be eliminated.
94. But there is another side to the country. Nationalism is a powerful, growing and potentially disruptive force.
95. Students were also penalised for exchanging suspicious information, disruptive behaviour and altering results documents.
96. Police efforts to thwart a feared attack triggered a disruptive , security clampdown across the country.
97. Joseph Schumpeter, an Austrian economist, argued that disruptive upstarts were needed when incumbent firms failed to drive innovation.
98. To understand just how disruptive this is to the GPS data market, you must first understand that "turn-by-turn" data was the lynchpin that held the duopoly together.
99. Policing disruptive protests without bloodshed will be a test for the army.
100. Sometimes, gifted children are disruptive in classrooms because they refuse to do exercises they consider to be busywork.
101. Today marks the beginning of the end of deadly and disruptive epidemics in Africa's meningitis belt.
102. The acquisition of MySQL by Sun marks one of the most significant recognitions of the importance and power of open source as a disruptive force in technology.
103. The new book says the needed disruptive force in education is computer - based learning.
104. No views disruptive of the Kuomintang - Communist united front will be tolerated.
105. As a matter of fact Newsweek's suggestion of military blockade would prove to be more disruptive to this key transit corridor.
106. Developing the PC, a classic disruptive technology, simply made no sense for minicomputer makers.
107. Because changing queue manager names in a point-to-point network is disruptive, it is tempting to reuse the same names for queue managers and channels during failover and migration.
108. Statutory interpretations or judicial directives that the agencies improve their procedures are less disruptive and more easily correctable if the court has misread the will of the Congress.
109. Ultimate Frisbee is most often played on beaches or in wide open parks where there are few trees or disruptive structures.
110. It allows an administrator to perform hardware maintenance, such as disruptive firmware updates, without requiring system downtime.
111. It's classified as a parasomnia , an abnormal behavior during sleep that's disruptive.
112. "It is going to be very disruptive" to publishers, said Eric Frank, president of Flat World Knowledge, which offers free texts to 1,300 instructors and their students on the Web.
113. Averting the disruptive extremes of boom and bust can help bring about long - term growth.Sentencedict
114. Web 2.0 can be a very disruptive force and will potentially be a significant one in the 2008 political story.
115. Please do not add content that is ungrammatical, machine translated from other languages, or disruptive to the flow of writing. Remember, this is the Chinese Wikipedia.
116. DESCRIPTION Remember is a to - do list application, focused on being straightforward and - disruptive.
117. This is what people meant, back in the 1990s, when they said the Internet would be a disruptive force on a global scale.
118. Many disruptive behaviors in the classroom can be alleviated before they become serious discipline problems.
119. Change will indeed be painful for incumbents, as disruptive innovation always is.
120. But we should not think there are no potentially disruptive forces.
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