By analogy, the phenomenon of small events causing similar events leading to eventual catastrophe is called the domino effect.

* 2001 – At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri railway station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.

In the absence of some momentum factor that makes later trees more likely to fall than earlier ones, this " domino effect " approaches zero probability.

Indeed, these issues would eventually lead to the Easter Rising of 1916 and the subsequent domino effect that would play a large part in the fall of the empire.

As the impoundments fail, a " domino effect " may be created, with a remarkable growth in the volume of the flowing mass, which takes up the debris in the stream channel.

The subsequent bankruptcy of WorldCom, which quickly surpassed Enron as the then biggest bankruptcy in history ( the record is now held by Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual ) led to a domino effect of accounting and like corporate scandals that continue to tarnish American business practices.

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Sexual differentiation is generally started by a main gene, a sex locus, then a multitude of other genes follow in a domino effect.

This trend in bootlegging liquor created a domino effect with criminals across the United States.

Not only did Paul Westhead's system influence his Mercury team, but it created a domino effect throughout the league.

The domino theory was a theory during the 1950s to 1980s, promoted at times by the government of the United States, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

Walt Rostow and Lee Kuan Yew have argued that the U. S. intervention in Indochina, by giving the nations of ASEAN time to consolidate and engage in economic growth, prevented a wider domino effect.

McGeorge Bundy argues that the prospects for a domino effect, though high in the 1950s and early 1960s, were weakened in 1965 when the Indonesian communist party was destroyed.

The global interpretation of the domino effect relies heavily upon the " prestige " interpretation of the theory, meaning that the success of Communist revolutions in some countries, though it did not provide material support to revolutionary forces in other countries, did contribute morale and rhetorical support.

In effect, the 2003 invasion of Iraq actually caused the domino theory that it was hoping to avoid.

That is, it was a regional domino effect threat that guided the American decision.

It dealt with Washington's concern over communism's domino effect, it enabled a media-sensitive presentation of the doctrine that won bipartisan support, and it mobilized American economic power to modernize and stabilize unstable regions without direct military intervention.

Samuel Holberry led an aborted rising in Sheffield on 12 January ; police action thwarted a major disturbance in the East End of London on the 14th, and on 26 January a few hundred Bradford Chartists staged a rising in the hope of precipitating a domino effect across the country.

Several explanations have been given for the appearance of " barbarians " on the frontier: weather and crops, population pressure, a " primeval urge " to push into the Mediterranean or the " domino effect " ( whereby the Huns fell upon the Goths who, in turn, pushed other Germanic tribes before them ).

King Abdullah II of Jordan has called this scenario the " worst case " for the conflict, fearing a domino effect of defragmentation of the country along sectarian lines with consequences to the wider region.

Because of the horizontal spin, the ball will take an unconventional path through the pins at impact, creating a domino effect pin reaction not normally seen when using more conventional releases.

Bogumil Terminski uses the term " migratory domino effect " to describe this process in the context of Sea People invasion.

Consequently, the stroke and back paddlers are out of synch or phase, similar to a domino effect or cascade / card deck riffle.

Each tile pattern in the Chinese domino set is made up of the outcome of a throw of two six-sided dice.

Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends.

A domino set is a generic gaming device, similar to playing cards or dice, in that a variety of games can be played with a set.

However, this is a relatively small number especially when playing with more than four people, so many domino sets are " extended " by introducing ends with greater numbers of spots, which increases the number of unique combinations of ends and thus of pieces.

Larger sets such as double-twenty-one can theoretically exist but are rarely seen in retail stores, as identifying the number of pips on each domino becomes difficult, and a double-twenty-one set would have 253 pieces, far more than is normally necessary for most domino games even with eight players.

The name " domino " is from the pieces ' resemblance to Venetian Carnival masks known as domini, which were white with black spots.

One half of each domino is set with the pips from one die and the other half contains the pips from the second die.

The 2008 and 2009 Double FIDO domino world champion from the UK is Darren Elhindi.

Qui tam is an abbreviated form of the Latin legal phrase qui tam pro domino rege quam pro se ipso in hac parte sequitur (" he who brings a case on behalf of our lord the King, as well as for himself ") In a qui tam action, the citizen filing suit is called a " relator ".

The domino theory principle may indeed explain why a chain of dominoes collapses, but an independent argument is necessary to explain why a similar principle would hold in other circumstances.

Because of the solid form of the tiles, mahjong is sometimes classified as a domino game but plays similar to card games such as rummy.

Pippa is slightly dim-witted, for example believing Victor had murdered an elderly blind man simply because the victim had been found clutching a double-one domino in his hand, and Victor had two pimples on his nose.

The domino game Texas 42 is an example of a trick-taking game that is not a card game.

In the game, Heaven is the top rank tile of the civilian suit, while Nine is the top rank tile of the military suit of the domino set.

The name " tetromino " is a combination of the prefix tetra-" four " ( from Ancient Greek ), and " domino ".

As the writer Don Atyeo has explained in his study of Violence in Sport ( 1979 ), ' Boxiana is riddled with " Fancy " slang: '" Ogles " were blackened, " peepers " plunged into darkness, " tripe-shops " received " staggerers ", " ivories " were cracked, " domino boxes " shattered, and " claret " flowed in a steady stream.

In February 2012 the last link in a record sixty-person domino chain of thirty kidney transplants was completed.

The camera tracks slowly from left to right, following the domino chain of reactions across an otherwise empty gallery space.