disturb the balance
Example Sentences
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Negative impacts of dyes are also found on land -- where they disturb the balance of microbial communities in soil -- and in humans.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023
Mr. Brown says the answer is not to disturb the balance between an enlarged public sector and recession-battered private sector.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2010
Hun Sen fears that a large-scale trial would disturb the balance he has achieved, one that has rabid guerrillas, royalists and former communists from his own party in check under his stringent authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
But as there is often occasion to use appliances which disturb the balance, it is well to have the means of at once restoring equilibrium.
From Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. by Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony)
But in thus shifting the emphasis in education we must be careful not to disturb the balance between cultural and "practical" subjects.
From Problems in American Democracy by Williamson, Thames Ross
