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
Then when his meditations had reached this point, a strange exultant thrill seemed to disturb the balance of his clearer judgment.
From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram
Across these unearthly waters, the guide can convey but two passengers at once; and these sit motionless in the canoe, with feet turned apart, so as not to disturb the balance.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
