caused ... disruption• The protesters have also stagedgo-slows and trafficdisruptions on motorways, and caused severe disruption in Edinburgh and Liverpool.• As a result they are less willing to accept the increasing costs caused by disruption and seek to recover them through claims.• Under Chatichai such unions had wieldedconsiderable power and had caused serious disruption to the government's privatization plans.• But it would have caused major disruption in many other areas as well.• The influx of large numbers of constructionworkers had inevitably caused disruption in the nearby villages, especially the closest, Stogursey.• A further wave of strikes caused similar disruption on Feb. 6.