They can help make employees feel free to report co-workers who are displaying evidence of a serious mental disturbance.

"If there is the threat of serious social disturbance, I don't doubt for a moment that he'll use the necessary force to stop it."

During the evening and night there were serious disturbances in the area around the school.

The potential is there for serious disturbances if and when authority passes into new hands.

For example, brain damage commonly leads to serious disturbances of memory.

No serious disturbance of any kind has been reported during the year.

But the match was overshadowed by serious disturbances in and around the ground.

The motions have been a serious disturbance to astronomical observations.

Such fluctuations may cause serious disturbances in the livestock sector.

Scuffles are reported but they're not given the chance to develop into any serious disturbance.