A unified approach would also defuse potentially disruptive rivalries among Western countries.

To complicate matters, we have a number of potentially disruptive guests aboard the ship.

To do so, he said, would be "premature and potentially disruptive" of other investigations into Wedtech that were then under way.

School authorities said the T-shirt could be seen as containing a veiled sexual message, and was potentially disruptive.

But they add that such action would be hasty and potentially disruptive at this early stage.

"His presence would be potentially disruptive and very likely intimidating," the judge said.

And all potentially disruptive provisions would be phased in slowly.

Although their independence was respected, even admired, they were feared as a potentially disruptive force in a society just beginning to find its balance.

The judge himself said in barring them last week that their presence could be "intimidating" and "potentially disruptive."

'There are certain people who are potentially disruptive of the process,' he added.