Yet gradually, the troubling elements assimilated into a coherence.

Mr. Husni said the most troubling element of the report was the loss in advertising from the automotive industry.

Nevertheless, Thutmose III reported a new and troubling element in the population.

Producers and writers prefer a more elliptical approach, siphoning off the most dramatic and troubling elements.

But the judge's conduct was not the only troubling element in this affair.

The more troubling element in criticism of the Haiti mission is, I think, a general public disinclination to send American forces anywhere abroad.

Dr. Abbas finds troubling elements in both places.

The restaurant's most troubling element is its design, which tries so hard to make the Southern theme clear as to be patronizing.

One troubling element of last July's peace agreement was a broad amnesty granted to rebel fighters for crimes committed during the war.

The most troubling element in the opinions is the flawed reasoning used by the Court to reach its conclusions.