Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although several protestors huddled outside of the second-floor room where the dinner was being held, none attempted to enter or disrupt the dinner...
...basis." While nongovernmental organizations and even some governments are raising some of those issues inside the talks, activists will maintain a steady barrage of protests throughout the week. While headline-grabbing anarchic actions at the fringes - such as the trashing of a McDonald's outlet on Monday - threaten to disrupt and distort the underlying cautionary message being borne by the WTO's naysayers, the very scale of the street protests meant that it was anything but business as usual on Day 1 of the Seattle summit...
...There are a few problems with this version of Women Beware Women. Some of the modern elements that are included in the show are anachronistic and slightly disrupt the continuity of the play. For instance, the ward is a die-hard Dungeons & Dragons fan and masturbates to nudie magazines, while Livia lures Bianca over to her home with a telephone call. Also, the intricacy of the plot, and the confusing dialogue of the production leave the fates of some members of the cast rather uncertain...
...similar regenerative ability in fish and reptiles, but there was still no evidence that evolution had passed on this ability to the human brain. Indeed, most neuroscientists wouldn't even entertain the possibility of new cell growth in the human brain on the grounds that any additional cells would disrupt the brain's complex wiring...
...safety reasons - especially when an expected 17,000 candle-bearing worshipers pack the church at the Greek Orthodox Easter next April. But an Israeli proposal to open a second entrance has provoked a furious response from all but one of the Christian sects, who believe a second entrance will disrupt the balance of power at the ancient holy site. While Israel has resolved not to proceed without establishing a consensus, the authorities fear that the pressure of millennium tourism could create a tragedy...