| Such a temporal event is something irruptive and unpredictable, both in its causes and effects. |
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| Events, as elements of the discourse, or rather the pre-discourse, are irruptive and specific, and essentially discontinuous. |
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| Their inconspicuous nature, relatively small numbers, and irruptive behavior make it difficult to monitor the population. |
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| Restoration wishes to limit irruptive, aggressive, and disruptive species. |
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| Sealed, that is, until the novel's opening scenes, when covetous, irruptive forces begin to smash through those barriers. |
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| They are what's known as an irruptive species, they migrate but not always in the same pattern. |
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| I would add that the siskin and crossbill are subject to irruptive behaviour. |
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| Most migratory patterns of mammals are part of a recurrent annual cycle, but the irruptive emigrations of lemmings and snowshoe hares are largely acyclic responses to population pressure on food supplies. |
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| The pump cannot be used to forward inflammable, explosive and aggressive liquids or to pump water at construction sites and leaks or to pump irruptive ground water, sandy or muddy water or waste-water! |
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| Cedar waxwings and rare Bohemian waxwings and sometimes even irruptive pine grosbeaks fed in them. |
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| But always exceeding such frameworks, the sculptures point to a messier and more irruptive set of relations. |
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| When protected from human harvest, deer populations are capable of irruptive population growth given their relative longevity and high reproductive capacity. |
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