“Ordinary shareholders will have to cause a rumpus at the annual general meetings to force real accountability and change.”

“That was a genuine abuse of her position, yet it caused less of a fuss than the present rumpus.”

“He can put an end to the rumpus by genuflecting before his fellow ministers and the European Commission.”

“Taylor was marching beside Shane when he heard a ruckus at the end of the line of soldiers.”

“When there's a ruckus in the street outside your home, you fling open the window to see what's happening.”

“In a town where the Saturday night entertainment was playing community cribbage, my Tarot cards caused quite a ruckus.”

“There was a massive ruction at the bar last night, with bottles flying and chairs being overturned.”

“Eager to prevent the family ruction he knows this will bring about, Ray makes a beeline over to his parents' house to try to intercept the letter.”

“My illness could easily have caused a ruction in the marriage as I just didn't want to know anyone.”

“Only at the Eurovision song contest could a guy with a beard wearing a frock cause such ructions.”

“This would mean ructions in the family, whose shaky economic viability depended on your starting work the day after your 14th birthday.”

“You have to go back to the 1960s and de Gaulle, or to ructions over cruise and Pershing missiles in the 1980s, to find comparable crises.”