1.   Voting in Borno State was disrupted by violence when agents for one of the candidates openly distributed cash.

2.   Observers had feared that violence would seriously disrupt the electoral process.

3.   Apart from fraud, violence often disrupts Philippine elections, especially on the southern islands where armed rebels, bandits, and powerful clans are still active.

4.   Concerned that Palestinian-Israeli violence would disrupt the effort, Cheney called on both sides to end their conflict.

5.   Fire fights also raged in a West Bank town and a besieged Jewish settlement, and the violence increasingly disrupted the lives of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians.

6.   Japanese company Tohoku Electric Power Co. has also said it will begin buying natural gas from Malaysia instead of Indonesia after violence disrupted production in Aceh.

7.   Obasanjo himself has warned of the likelihood that violence could disrupt the next ballot.

8.   Street violence disrupted a World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle last December.

9.   The violence increasingly disrupted the lives of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians.