disruptive influence

collocation in English

meaningsofdisruptiveandinfluence

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disruptive
adjective
uk
/dɪsˈrʌp.tɪv/us
/dɪsˈrʌp.t̬ɪv/
causing trouble and therefore stopping something from continuing ...
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influence
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/us
/ˈɪn.flu.əns/
the power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to ...
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(Definition ofdisruptiveandinfluencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Rather, along with thedisruptiveinfluenceof psychiatric disorder itself on children's lives, other stable characteristics of depression-prone individuals may lead them to create stressful circumstances.
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Although it is a minority group, it is big and strong enough to have a reallydisruptiveinfluencewithin the prison system.
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That can have adisruptiveinfluenceon the good work of the institution.
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Among the more serious problems are those created by a very small number of young people who can exert a disproportionatelydisruptiveinfluencein school.
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They are adisruptiveinfluencein the school at which they are pupils.
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If two or three happen to get into an approved school it can call for a disproportionate amount of work from the staff and provide a verydisruptiveinfluence.
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He will be adisruptiveinfluenceand have the effect of making it a much less good training programme for all the other youngsters who are there.
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Young people must want to take part in it, and reluctant recruits would be adisruptiveinfluencewhich potential sponsors would not be prepared to face.
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It is the element without—the small body of growers with this greatdisruptiveinfluencequite disproportionate to their size—against which it is so important to protect ourselves.
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He was dismissed after being found guilty of insubordination and constituting adisruptiveinfluencein the operations of the company.
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Anyone who challenges this cycle will be treated as adisruptiveinfluenceand will be ignored, ridiculed or removed.
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Defensive walls between states were demolished because of theirdisruptiveinfluenceupon trade.
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Greater bandwidth will solve thedisruptiveinfluenceof todays delays in audio and video transmission.
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Studies such as these clearly demonstrate thedisruptiveinfluencesleep deprivation has on memory consolidation of procedural and declarative memories.
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Prolonged separations from parents have profounddisruptiveinfluenceon children's development.
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Ferguson has received criticism for being adisruptiveinfluenceon the team despite captaining his country for years.
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Rather, a momentum analysis clarifies the tricky nature of programming for generalization, and it emphasizes the need to implement procedures for managing reinforcement schedules, disruptive influences, and controlling stimulus classes.
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From what has been said one might imagine there were disruptive influences all over the coalfield.
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However, elderly people view the sudden and often unannounced changes of management that are a feature of the private sector as one of the most disruptive influences.
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