However, a major terrorist attack could cause substantial economic disruption.

This has led to substantial disruption to the climate system, and is one of the proposed causes of the great dying.

However, the substantial gravimetric disruptions rendered our sensors useless for a short time.

Both, it says, would be costly, cause substantial disruption and be only a short-term solution.

South of this massive slate plate, again the rock formations show substantial tectonic disruptions.

Sporadic armed resistance and strikes by workers' councils continued until mid-1957, causing substantial economic disruption.

"I find that the risk of substantial disruption at the casinos will be less with the restructuring than without it," Miss Armstrong said.

Other demands on officers' time tend to impose a pattern on their behaviour which is difficult to break without substantial disruption to their schedule and mobility.

The result in coming decades could be substantial ecological disruption, local losses of wildlife and extinction of some species, the two studies said.

A job action, if it came, would probably be ended quickly but not before substantial disruption.