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When a mirror spontaneously breaks during a birthday celebration, this triggers a whole series of mysterious and seemingly supernatural events.
A deplorable social condition triggers off the catastrophe: An impoverished Giovanna has ended up in the gutter, but still has an ace up her sleeve: beauty and youth.
This triggers a midlife crisis which may or may not be ameliorated by an affair and retreat to a shrink's couch.
The better a film is the more likely it triggers daydreams that send me really dreaming.
I know nothing about Long Beach NY but this film certainly triggers no desire on my part to visit there.
Also, Ehsaan, Loy, and Shankar's music is always a strong underscoring factor that triggers a heightening of emotions at the exact appropriate times.
Owen's carrot fixation is even put to good use pulling triggers and stabbing the villains in the eyeball or through the mouth and out the back of their necks.
He has blocked out the memory all of his life, but when a series of events triggers him to remember his dark past, he must get vengeance for his family.
Thomas tips his symbolic glove in an early scene when a collapsing mine triggers falling plaster and cracks in the walls of the 'big house' in the mining village, which is home to the eponymous sisters, who pledge to rebuild the homes in the mining village destroyed by the collapse.
The plot is not the main point: extreme pollution triggers chain reactions.
Appropriately defined triggers thus address one of the main criticisms of international aid.
What kinds of triggers should be specified for mobilizing buy-down funds?
Moreover, it examines how the buy-down triggers could catalyze results, as well as the operational issues that might arise.
This would increase the frequency and intensity of climate triggers.
That triggers one of those great bursts of laughter that, as I noticed in Boston, raise her high cheekbones still higher.
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls.
The people who bid up the prices of long-term US Treasury bills in anticipation of interest-rate cuts when the Fed overshoots and triggers a recession are the same people who are now on tenterhooks wondering when to start cutting back on investment plans because a recession will soon produce overcapacity.
Life events are relegated to mere triggers of an underlying biological time bomb.
The second scenario resembles Argentina’s experience: a severe socioeconomic crisis triggers unrest and ultimately prompts reform.
Legal and illegal migration triggers far-right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.
It is difficult to predict what triggers popular protest, but economic factors are key.
Buying up whole enterprises triggers angry speeches in the US Congress.
The second step is to build a quantitative model of the uncertainties in such decisions, including the various triggers, consequences, controls, and mitigants, as well as the different costs, benefits, and risks involved.
Over time, however, the interest-rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.
Talk of “haircuts” for private investors immediately triggers concerns about contagion.
The instability in the lending sector is always there, and the crisis manifests itself only if some precipitating factor triggers it.
Maintaining peace in a world in which literally dozens of fingers are on nuclear triggers will be far more difficult—and the consequences of failure far more destructive.
The Euro's appreciation may well be the tipping factor that triggers deflation.
Not surprisingly, a contagious globalization that increases vulnerability inevitably triggers preventive and defensive strategies that are not always proportionate or reasonable.
The specific triggers, objectives, and battle lines of such conflicts are likely to be determined, to varying degrees, by five factors: creed, clan, culture, climate, and currency.
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