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
It is a serious matter lightly to disturb the balance of nature by the introduction of a new species.
From The Meaning of Evolution by Samuel Christian Schmucker
Why, even the wire was reflective, so that it couldn't absorb energy and thus disturb the balance that existed within that bit of space.
From Empire by Clifford D. Simak
