1. The announcement caused serious ructions.

2. Both ac-tivities have caused some ructions.

3. There'll be ructions if her father ever finds out.

4. There'll be ructions if I'm not home by midnight.

5. There'll be ructions if you don't do as you're told.

6. I remember ructions once when she was my houseman.

7. You can expect ructions at home if you have been taking a partner for granted recently.

8. There have been some serious ructions when they have played table tennis, with rows and cheating and shouting matches.

9. Crow coincided with enormous political and social ructions in China.

10. This is in part because despite various ructions in markets, long-term investors have hung on to their belief that the world economy is generally in recovery mode.

11. Word had spread that child marriages were to be photographed and this had caused some ructions within the community.

12. If the law were to threaten Haider, he could cause further ructions.