Word: disrupt
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Masako could be cheeky. In high school English class, the students would try to disrupt a lesson by asking the teacher endless questions. Before the start of the session, Owada and her best friend to this day, Sumiyo Tsuchikawa, the two most fluent English speakers in the group, would go to the blackboard and write down teasers like "Did you go out with anyone during college?" The rest of the class shouted out questions in Japanese for the pair to translate in chalk...
...would hope that Harvard as a university would be able to manage this event as a community," he said. "I would be discouraged if there were any attempt to disrupt the ceremony...
...were Colin Powell, I would decline Harvard's offer to speak at Commencement. Not because of the agitation and protest that my opposition to gays in the military has provoked or the possibility that ACT-UP radicals will try to disrupt my speech. After all, Powell has seen real combat--the kind most Harvard folks, like me, hopefully never will. When compared to grenades and aerial bombardment, the harangues of malcontents seem rather harmless...
...with the procedure; witnesses to this scene are usually rattled and discomfited. In another, a protester uses a borrowed urine sample that indicates she is pregnant, and then goes through all the steps at a clinic up to reclining on the operating table. Her goal is not only to disrupt but also to gather information about clinic routines and personnel...
Powell has opposed President Bill Clinton's efforts to end the ban on gays and lesbians in the military. Though he has predicated his opposition on the claim that ending the ban would disrupt morale and discipline in the armed forces, his argument is an attempt to justify a policy that sanctions bigotry...