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
Perhaps it would even disturb the balance of the planets.
From Raiders of the Universes by Wandrei, Donald A.
In either case, his nature would have the same harmonious energy, and the moral part of him would not disturb the balance of his character.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various
