The crinkling of a hundred cough drop wrappers caused a greater disturbance than the coughing itself.    From LearnThat.org. 

They were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He looked around for the source of the disturbance.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

There was a disturbance of neural function.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

There was too much anger and disturbance.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Ay, but disturbance is no law, and therefore cannot last.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parables From Nature] Reference

In Iowa, some call the disturbance at Iowa State University a riot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2004] Reference

Lo and behold, the disturbance is created by a magical flying horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference

I mean, play on the paintball fields where the disturbance is contained ... not in where hunters are.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Paintballing And Geocaching At WMAs] Reference

Figure 6: Long-term disturbance of DISC expression leads to spine shrinkage in rat primary cortical neurons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Political disturbance is out the window too, apparently, as Triumph of the Will and Birth of a Nation are MIA.    From Wordnik.com.  [intertribal: social disturbances: let's get honest] Reference

This for me was a unique experience, as my ability to sleep through any kind of noisy disturbance is legendary.    From Wordnik.com.  [SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 648] Reference

China and so to open a new field for Chinese trade, which was suffering continual disturbance from the Japanese.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of China] Reference

Tropical Update: What's left of Danny rained on New England while the latest disturbance is still off the Antilles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Takes] Reference

If the food is immediately reduced by one half, the organs of digestion soon regain their power and the disturbance is short.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Care and Feeding of Children A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses] Reference

Yet in most cases a single disturbance is not sufficient, but instead an accumulation of several critical injuries is required.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1989 - Presentation Speech] Reference

This document implies such civil disturbance is likely to become more widespread. on January 11, 2009 at 6: 10 pm | Reply Fed up.    From Wordnik.com.  [All That Trouble Over A Footballer « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG] Reference

Row, a disturbance, is branded by him as 'a very low expression 'and chaperon as' an affected word of very recent introduction. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Dictionaries] Reference

But, in our system, undifferentiated fear or apprehension of disturbance is not enough to overcome the right to freedom of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Support for Restricting the Speech of Students Who Wear American Flags to School on Cinco de Mayo] Reference

However, what I plan to concentrate on is a different kind of disturbance, which is the importation of ontology into psychology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul] Reference

Insanity is defined as a disturbance of the vital force (eod.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Lunheng] Reference

A wave is defined as a disturbance that propagates and carries energy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lenny Flank, this is for you... - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The disturbance was a relatively minor geysering in the crater lake - a volcanic burp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fresh Bilge] Reference

Judge Geoffrey Rivlin QC said: There is no doubt that the disturbance was a very major one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

But apparently the main reason for his disturbance was the impending poverty of his fiancee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gold Bag] Reference

Wichita Falls police investigate a scene witnesses described as a disturbance in the Sunnyside addition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Times Record News Stories] Reference

A few words may be added about a mental disturbance, which is of importance to jurists and to the clergy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Who could have predicted that the disturbance was a one hundred and fifty something foot tall tyrannosaurus rex?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular in the last 8 hours] Reference

The focus of the disturbance was the front of the library, where a dozen protesters were marching with picket signs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Sang For The Birds]

He said: "We realised that the disturbance was a small boat travelling at high speed, using the ship's wake as cover.".    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

It is unlawful to "incite a riot," but "riot" is specifically defined as a disturbance that is a "clear and present danger.".    From Wordnik.com.  [City Council In Illinois May Ban Eye-Rolling] Reference

The guards were forbidden to let us go up on the Tower to take the air; an order always given when Paris was in disturbance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruin of a Princess] Reference

The disturbance was the latest in a frequently occurring series of "mass incidents" protesting the ill effects of pollution in China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] Reference

Corcoran says it happened after a disturbance, which is under investigation by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

This identity disturbance, which is at the psychodynamic root of both pathological narcissism and rapacious psychopathy, is all-pervasive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema] Reference

We're getting word there may be some kind of disturbance or something going on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2002] Reference

"Once the charges are armed, any kind of disturbance could set them off," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sun of Suns] Reference

No need for the "disturbance" of ties to humanity, to nations, to IPCC or G-77 or whatever.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Wihbey: After Copenhagen Chaos, A Bit of Emerson for the Soul] Reference

O'BRIEN: Yes, he said it sounded as if there was some kind of disturbance, one source told him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2006] Reference

Along this path one is driven, as we have seen, to conceive of light as a mere 'disturbance' in the universe, a kind of irregular chaos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference