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
But as such marriages might result in the consolidation of powerful States, and thus disturb the balance of power, they were generally opposed by other countries, especially England.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen by John Lord
The war will leave traces on this generation—no doubt about that; but our losses have not been heavy enough seriously to disturb the balance of the sexes.
From Broken Homes A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment by Joanna C. Colcord
