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
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
Their forces were so nearly counterpoised, that no apprehensions were entertained of any event which could suddenly disturb the balance of power between them.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by Hume, David
