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On that particular day, for some reason, that particular tweet after the basketball game triggered something called a "cyber mob."
I'm going to show you many different kinds of pieces, and there's no real connection between one or the other, except that they sort of come out of my brain, and they're all different sort of thoughts that are triggered by looking at life, and seeing nature and seeing objects, and just having kind of playful random thoughts about things.
The end of my antigay picketing career and life as I knew it, came 20 years later, triggered in part by strangers on Twitter who showed me the power of engaging the other.
We're going to have to take this pill before we reach that tipping point, before the cascade is triggered, before we start leaving our keys in the refrigerator.
Yes! Yes! (Applause) The X-Men were mutants, individuals with mutated and enhanced genes that triggered in adolescence, giving them superpowers.
And you know what triggered it?
I was triggered."
"Well, what triggered you?"
The court was somewhat skeptical, especially when the device triggered on a seemingly quiet afternoon.
They reported that there was an 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Sumatra, which triggered the massive tsunami.
After laissez-faire economics triggered the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write a new economics, and what he did was to tell a restoration story, and it went something like this.
It was denounced as anti-Semitic, triggered widespread outrage, apologies and a lot of damage control by the Times.
I said, "No," and it triggered a set of thoughts about my wife.
And the orgasm reflex can be triggered by a surprisingly broad range of input.
Except that an asteroid hit Mexico, and then that triggered volcanoes on the other side of the world in India, and everything almost died again.
It was these fail safes that triggered the alarms just before the lunar landing.
These symptoms have a huge impact on a person's quality of life and are often triggered by particular situations or cues in that person's environment.
So what triggered this extraordinary growth in cross-border crime?
He triggered the modernist revolution.
And pneumonia, often triggered by bacterial or viral infections, attacks the alveoli themselves.
What I think it comes to is this: Al Gore spoke the other night about ecology and the revolution that was triggered by Rachel Carson.
And while a more recent study did show that reaction times and errors increase for some bilingual students in cross-language tests, it also showed that the effort and attention needed to switch between languages triggered more activity in, and potentially strengthened, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.
Just as we cannot ignore the literal meaning of words, we cannot ignore the analogies that are triggered by metaphor.
Well, if you look at an emotion like this, then it looks like a simple reflex: it's triggered by an external predicament, it's hardwired, it's there to protect us from harm.
We also discussed some of the issues triggered by our various cultural backgrounds, and we realized there can be some significant differences in how we honor the passing of a loved one.
So yes, we've triggered initial engagement with a financial reward.
The late 90s success of Ritchie's cliché-ridden Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels triggered a series of pitiful gangster movies from which the genre never really recovered.
I guess we're supposed to sympathize as he stumbles through a series of misadventures seemingly triggered by his purchase of a dog, but in reality brought on by his own contemptible nature.
The emergence of Quentin Tarantino and his dubious influence on the likes of Guy Ritchie may have triggered the wave of appalling British gangster flicks we've been bequeathed over the past few years, but one of our most famous acting exports only serves to perpetuate the cycle by lending his considerable name to trash like this.
We have some thieves pulling a jewel heist and when one does something wrong the alarm is triggered and the cops chase them and when the car turns around at a road block one of the thieves (Paul Nash, Jacinto Molina, whoever he is here) gets shot.
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