1.   Hire-purchase controls may have serious disruptive effects on certain industries, whose products are bought largely on hire-purchase credit.

2.   In practice, this action is not likely to be taken very often because it may have undesirable disruptive effects on the financial system.

3.   Franklin and other black leaders traditionally have accepted the disruptive effects of desegregation in the cause of the greater good of integration.

4.   Trade certainly has disruptive effects, as does any functioning market.

5.   Any successful police operation will have a disruptive effect on the channels a network has put in place.

6.   BBC-TV had previously not aired programs during that hour to allow parents to send children to bed without the potential disruptive effect of continuous television.

7.   Current developments in the region demonstrate the disruptive effects of market forces left unchecked, said Anwar, who is also the finance minister.

8.   The government has been warning for months that heavy floods were likely this year, partly because of the disruptive El Nino weather effect.

9.   Crossick argued however that the disruptive effects of currency fluctuations would increase the pressure from industry for monetary union.