Even when relatively subtle, these activities can disrupt routine activities of living.

Renewed activity in this area could disrupt the course of the river and have a serious impact on people living or working downstream.

Their activities, she fears, are disrupting the delicate island ecology on which the tortoises depend.

The general's activities are disrupting the planned withdrawal of the 4,000 American troops in Somalia.

The reasoning being that the activities of the Huns disrupted and threatened the existing peoples of the region forcing them to uproot.

Some have theorized that seismic activity preceding a major earthquake on the East Coast disrupted the pigeons' electromagnetic sense.

The army said that his activities "have disrupted the population and led to disturbances of public order."

It is possible that abnormal electrical activity during sleep disrupts the process of memory consolidation which normally occurs when we sleep.

Israel says his activities "have disrupted the population and led to disturbances of public order."

These human activities and alterations of the environments have disrupted the grasshopper's habitat.