Example collocations logo

Prompted in sentence

322 examples of Prompted in a sentence

Moreover, the security threat from Russia has prompted a gradual increase in European defense spending and security cooperation.
It was not until the physical threat to Europe disappeared a decade ago that Europe was prompted to engage in profound reflections upon the moral and spiritual foundations of its unification, and what should be the objectives of a united Europe.
But talk of regime change may have prompted Musharraf to re-enter politics.
Yet the closing of The Daily News seems to have prompted the first signs that things may be changing.
Playing by the Rules in AsiaCANBERRA – China’s adventurism in the South China Sea has prompted a change in Australian policymaking that merits wide international attention.
Meanwhile, domestic tension in China – particularly the scandal surrounding the purge of former Chongqing Communist Party boss Bo Xilai and the country’s economic slowdown – has probably prompted the government to play the nationalist card more forcefully than usual.
Nixon was far from mad, though his heavy drinking at the height of the Watergate scandal prompted Kissinger and Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger to establish a way to monitor his control of the nuclear codes.
It was this dangerous state of affairs —including the breakdown of governmentin Palestine and fighting between Fatah and Hamas—that prompted the Saudi initiative.
Economists are a fractious lot, but they are also stubborn investigators, so the controversy prompted new research into the effects of budgetary retrenchments.
The success of that test prompted the Manhattan Project’s lead scientist, Robert Oppenheimer, to reflect that he had become a “destroyer of worlds.”
This prompted Kok to call last year--on the 20th anniversary of the Wassenaar accord--for a new pact among the country's social partners.
Indeed, the fact that many school buildings were flattened in Sichuan prompted an outcry from ‘netizens,’ who grilled local officials about whether it substandard building codes or even a notorious “toufuzha construction scandal,” namely, jerry-built projects, that had led to the disproportionate number of dead pupils.
Fortunately, the political backlash against the quarantine orders quickly prompted some state governors to ease them.
But a matching omission is that prompted by our societies’ increasing political unsustainability, not because of the immediate financial problems like those afflicting Europe and threatening the world, but because the modern media have made visible to all the disparities in the fortunes of the rich and the poor.
In fact, increases in financing costs and uncertainty about RMB appreciation prompted a partial sell-off of RMB assets by Hong Kong residents.
Deep and sustained anger across the country – at its demonstrated vulnerability to terror and at the multiple institutional failures that allowed such loss of life – has prompted the resignations of the Home Minister in the national government and the Chief Minister and his Deputy in the state of Maharashtra, of which Mumbai is the capital.
In Europe, Fukushima prompted a media blitz of gloom and doom over nuclear energy.
This behavior prompted the National Gallery in Washington, DC, to cancel a planned show of Close’s work.
Recalling what prompted the events of 1989 may help Europe find a way out of its current malaise.
She says that her decision was prompted by the criticism she faced from opponents in parliament over the imminent Brexit negotiations.
Eagerness to overcome this guilt might even have prompted some people to exaggerate Israeli aggression.
So the armed forces found themselves in a double bind: the Cold War's end prompted calls for a peace dividend and for unification to be funded.
The pervasive soul-searching prompted by such questions has nurtured a growing recognition that capitalism’s success depends not only on macroeconomic policy or economic indicators.
Now growth is down in almost all of them, and investors are pulling their money out – prompted in part by the expectation that the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in September.
The prospect of a Middle East conflagration has prompted an airlift of senior American officials to Israel to warn of the devastating consequences that an Israeli attack on Iran might have.
The refocus on trade and economic issues has also prompted Washington to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which aims to create a new Asia-Pacific free-trade group that excludes China.
And while this conversation has often been confrontational and dominated by extreme views, it may have prompted some people to consider the pros, rather than just the cons.
Contrary to what one would imagine, the Kyoto Protocol has not prompted this research.
PISA has already prompted important advances in education worldwide.
He is right that, in the United States, prescription medicines are very costly – a reality that has prompted much public anger.
BackNext