(n.) Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
Example Sentences:
(1) Actinic commotion at the surface of the body is often massive in degree and extent and may be expected to exert a deleterious autoimmune impact on the essential elastic tissues of the arterial system.
(2) Instead the commotion was caused by the hulking figure in the front row who, after Haye had taken the plaudits for his fifth-round stoppage of Chisora, and his beaten opponent had accepted he had been floored by the better man, walked over to the top table and challenged the victor to a fight of their own.
(3) "We heard the commotion downstairs, but they weren't the kind of family to scream and yell," she says.
(4) In the commotion that followed Xiros's escape, Alexandros Giotopoulos, the French-born academic believed to have founded the gang, and Dimitris Koufondinas, its chief hitman, have declared, in letters written from prison, that "17 November is dead".
(5) That was where Tree was dancing in the early hours of 28 June 1969, when he heard and saw a commotion through the archway.
(6) When Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt took a " selfie " on her smartphone last week, like millions of people do every day, she doubtless had little idea of the commotion that would ensue.
(7) My neighbours (poor things) do not listen to The Archers or they would have known that the commotion they heard was my response to evidence being given by Kirsty Miller at the trial of Helen Titchener.
(8) If they had, there would have been too much commotion.
(9) The incident does not bode well – even if this is not the first time a Golden Dawn MP has caused commotion in the House.
(10) Commotion Wireless may prove to have been presciently named.
(11) But Victoria Square, named after Britain’s long-reigning monarch, has also come to represent something else: a fear of the chaos and commotion that the stranded migrants have brought with them.
(12) Someone was angry enough to drive a cement mixer into the gates of the country's parliament yesterday, but there was much more commotion earlier this month when Tony Blair – an ex-prime minister of a foreign country – came to town .
(13) That was the poachers’ luck.” In the commotion and darkness, the villains made their escape.
(14) Look, Richard says, they never set out to cause a commotion.
(15) In patients with brain commotion in the first week after trauma only 24-hours EEG revealed changes.
(16) Suzy Mitchell, 26, said she heard the commotion from her bedroom at the back of an apartment block opposite the venue: “Everyone was running away in big crowds.” Police were alerted to the explosion at 10.33pm.
(17) According to ABC News , the suicidal woman was on the edge of a balcony and threatened to jump when the three men heard the commotion and rushed into the building to rescue her.
(18) When gay radiologist Jorg Thieme had the temerity to kiss his male partner there, a scandalised Canary Wharf security guard intervened to prevent "a commotion".
(19) Some sudden movement attracted her attention, a commotion, and she could see Lawrence on the ground, a group of men surrounding him and kicking, holding him down, she remembers.
(20) Cool-headed, as if oblivious to the commotion around her, she was earnestly engaged in formulating a policy phrase that would distinguish government borrowing (for a fiscal stimulus to get us out of the financial crisis) from personal borrowing (of the sort which got us into it).
Ruction
Definition:
(n.) An uproar; a quarrel; a noisy outbreak.
Example Sentences:
(1) The erstwhile envoy caused ructions earlier this week when he declared in an interview with the New York Times that Greece's IMF-dicated fiscal adjustment program was doomed to failure.
(2) It will also target other sports, having already signed a £152m club rugby deal that has caused major ructions within the game.
(3) Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said in a note to clients: “The reasons for this new jitteriness are not hard to find with the global economic outlook turning darker, and growth downgrades coming thick and fast from all angles, while concerns about the spread of Ebola are inducing fears about travel bans prompting changes in consumer behaviour across the US.” The catalyst for Wednesday’s market ructions was data indicating the US economy was feeling the effects of a global fall in demand.
(4) David Cameron doesn't seem to be a sweary type; he doesn't blowtorch underlings or kick the copying machines in the style of Gordon Brown – but there will have been ructions on receipt of those latest migration figures from the Office for National Statistics .
(5) "It is causing major ructions in sport and we are going to have discussions amongst our fellow British associations.
(6) The savage market ructions of recent weeks and days are disconcerting.
(7) I can still dimly remember the ructions over the introduction of the sex discrimination bill in 1983 but, even so, reading back now, the debate is astonishing.
(8) Foreign minister Julie Bishop has rebuked Coalition MPs for making public statements on the prime minister’s chief of staff, but downplayed ructions within the government as the teething problems of a young government.
(9) A brace of polls this week suggested that Labour ructions could hand the SNP such a raft of seats that they could potentially hold the balance of power at Westminster.
(10) In the wake of yesterday's fireworks, the Cannes film festival , running scared from the ructions, released a statement saying that it had been "disturbed" by his behaviour.
(11) If BAE and EADS overcome Monday's ructions and bring France, Germany and the UK together, more difficulties certainly lie ahead.
(12) Credlin has been by the prime minister’s side from almost the moment he took over the leadership of a Coalition split asunder and demoralised after its internal ructions over support for the Rudd government’s carbon price.
(13) Dammers caused further ructions when he insisted on widening 2 Tone's musical palette.
(14) He's adept at assuming and shedding a succession of identities and even sexual preferences, expert in technological matters, au fait with the forgers and gunsmiths of the continental underworld, and yet quite uninvolved in the political and military ructions that have prompted his employers, a cadre of right-wing French military officers, to seek his skills.
(15) But not enough to risk the internal destabilisation and possible upheaval and "off-message" ructions of doing anything about it.
(16) In the debut Vine, two sisters clash over their family’s history, while its successor explores the ructions among a group of smug young successful professionals when the corpses of a woman and a child are dug up in the ground of a house where they spent a hedonistic time as students.
(17) Australia, with one of the highest rate of emissions per capita in the world , has all the natural resources to transition to solar and wind energy, only for political ructions to regularly hamstring the renewable energy industry.
(18) It reflects the fact that the government is a coalition that wants, for domestic political reasons, to avoid internal ructions over Europe and to draw a line under Labour's wars.
(19) Ructions over the future of the eurozone bewilder Hague and business people he meets in Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Frankfurt.
(20) While the agreement may satisfy the leadership of the two coalition parties, it is likely to cause major ructions on the Tory backbenches.