Wiktionary
n. The act or process of destabilize
WordNet
n. an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft)
the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) [syn: destabilisation] [ant: stabilization, stabilization]
Usage examples of "destabilization".
The action, the energy for this destabilization, by elimination must be coming from or via Vervain.
Once a bridgehead had been secured with sufficient standoff to prevent destabilization of the wormhole the quarkium unit would be detonated and then colonization could recommence with the local area seared of hostile forces.
There are some very out there theoretical materials that might be used, but I think even then all we'd get is destabilization and the materials vaporizing in a microsecond or two.
Marchenko was an expert on the techniques of internal security and of its counterpart, destabilization, and his particular area of interest had always been the democracies of Western Europe, whose police and internal-security forces he had studied half his life.
If we can inflict sufficient losses on the local naval forces to provide the Emperor with a pretext, the Empire will declare that the instability in this region of the Confederacy has become great enough in its opinion to threaten a general destabilization of the area.
And to prevent that destabilization, the Imperial Navy will move into Saginaw and impose a cease-fire, under the terms of which the Empire will recognize the Council as the de facto legitimate government of Prism.
Tom, the National Security Council has advised the President that a military coup in Thailand at this time could lead to a severe destabilization throughout the area.
Hsiao had other contacts among the dissident officers, and the important thing was the destabilization of the That government.
The destabilization of President Cormack by a paid-for whispering campaign through lobbies, the media, the people, and the Congress, bore the name Plan Crockett, after Davy Crockett, the pioneer and Indian fighter who also died there.
The destabilization and demoralization of the United States has long been Moscow’s top priority—no argument about that.
Internally, here in Russia, it is one of destabilization of your election campaign, the spreading of alarm and despondency, based on the selective showing of your private manifesto to certain persons.
Some of the infected may not undergo any perceptible change, mentally or physically, because they receive DNA fragments from so many sources that there is no focused cumulative effect other than a general destabilization of the system, resulting in rapidly metastasizing cancers and deadly autoimmune disorders.
And, as the first step in ending the bloodshed and restoring domestic tranquility and local self-government, you have seized control of the Lynx Terminus in order to avoid further destabilization by outside interests.