disturb the balance
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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
This was such, at the accession of Ferdinand and Isabella, as to disturb the balance of the constitution, and to give serious cause of apprehension both to the monarch and the people.
From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by Prescott, William Hickling
Were Austria and Russia permitted to aggrandize themselves by adding the Turkish territory to their possessions, it would gravely disturb the balance of power which England had so much at heart.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
