The formation of the Isthmus of Panama joined the two continents two to three million years ago, precipitating the Great American Interchange, an important biogeographical event.

# precipitating factors-discontent usually requires a catalyst ( often a specific event ) to turn it into a social movement

The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar then known as a blind pig, on the corner of 12th ( today Rosa Parks Boulevard ) and Clairmount streets on the city's Near West Side.

* Not timely: There is no precipitating event triggering the story, other than a reporter's curiosity.

At age 15, Coelho was injured in a pickup truck accident, which doctors later suggested was the precipitating event for the onset of his epilepsy.

In the book Agee condemned the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City and wrote that this was the immediate event precipitating his leaving the agency.

When its two extant species diverged from each other is uncertain, though the precipitating event was likely the formation of the ice cap over the Arctic Ocean, which would have isolated sharks in the North Pacific from those in the North Atlantic.

The deciding event in precipitating the First Congo War was the Rwandan genocide, which sparked a mass exodus of refugees known as the Great Lakes refugee crisis.

The precipitating event was the installation of one-way mirrors in a number of booths ( which also exist in the Seattle branch ), resulting in some customers taking photos and videos of the show.

Charging the mound is the most common precipitating event of a bench-clearing brawl.

According to aviation industry analyst Iain McCreary of the consultancy Insight SRI, this is the only known case of a Foreign Object Debris ( FOD ) strike forcing an airline into bankruptcy (" if not as the cause, then as a precipitating event ")

Higgins in the Federal Arbitration Court ruled that the precipitating event was a lockout rather than a strike, and that the regulation refusing tramwaymen the right to wear their union badges on duty was both unauthorised and unreasonable.

According to tradition, the precipitating event was the rape of Lucretia by Sextus Tarquinius, the king son's.

The usual precipitating event is a frustration or injury leading to the temporary cessation of breathing in end expiration.

* Yahtzee has been cited as a precipitating factor in a case of domestic violence and as the motive for at least one murder.

In the worst case, administration of high levels of oxygen in patients with severe emphysema and high blood carbon dioxide reduces respiratory drive to the point of precipitating respiratory failure, and eventual death.

Usually, the precipitating medication regimen includes combination chemotherapy, but TLS can be triggered in cancer patients by steroid treatment alone, and sometimes without any treatment — in this case the condition is referred to as " spontaneous tumor lysis syndrome ".

For example, this is the case when a large active manager sells his position in a company, leading to ( possibly ) a decline in the stock price, but more importantly a loss of confidence by the markets in the management of the company, thus precipitating changes in the management team.

According to their patents, acidic conditions are essential to prevent the chromium ( which is used as the colorant ) from precipitating.

In 1853, gold was discovered in the interior, precipitating border disputes with Brazil and Suriname ( these were later settled in 1891, 1899 and 1915, though a small region of the border with Suriname is still disputed ).

* 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States " Don't ask, don't tell " military policy.

The process of precipitating snow is called snowfall.

Amorphous tellurium is found by precipitating it from a solution of tellurous or telluric acid ( Te ( OH )< sub > 6 </ sub >).

In the Trojan War cycle of myth, the wedding of Thetis and the Greek hero Peleus is one of the precipitating events in the war, leading also to the birth of their child Achilles.

Informative is the Good Parliament, where the Commons for the first time – albeit with noble support – were responsible for precipitating a political crisis.

This apparent reversal of prefix and root is a carry-over from the mid 19th century, when nimbus was the root word for all precipitating clouds.

It is currently suspected that hormones produced in that fat are a precipitating cause of insulin resistance.

Gout is a disorder of purine metabolism, and occurs when its final metabolite, uric acid, crystallizes in the form of monosodium urate, precipitating in joints, on tendons, and in the surrounding tissues.

" ( NIMH ) There is a possibility that PANDAS may be a precipitating factor in the development of anorexia nervosa in some cases, ( PANDAS AN ).

An old technique of precipitating pectin with aluminium salts is no longer used ( apart from alcohols and polyvalent cations ; pectin also precipitates with proteins and detergents ).

Stalagmites should normally not be touched, since the rock buildup is formed by minerals precipitating out of the water solution onto the old surface ; skin oils can alter the surface where the mineral water will cling, thus affecting the growth of the formation.

Abnormal psychology is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behavior, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder.

A precipitating cause is an immediate trigger that instigates a person's action or behavior.

Echocardiography can also help determine if acute myocardial ischemia is the precipitating cause, and may manifest as regional wall motion abnormalities on echo.

Its half-life is constant, and therefore its level is mainly determined by the rate of production ( and hence the severity of the precipitating cause ).

Therefore, CRP level is mainly determined by the rate of production ( and hence the severity of the precipitating cause ).

A critical characteristic of wootz steel is the abundance of ultrahard metallic carbides in the steel matrix precipitating out in bands, making wootz steel display a characteristic banding on its surface.

It is often stated that Abbey's works played a significant role in precipitating the creation of Earth First !.

A lake pigment is a pigment manufactured by precipitating a dye with an inert binder, or " mordant ", usually a metallic salt.

In CDI, cloudy air is mixed into the dry sub-cloud air rather than precipitating into it.

Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.

Finally, Magwitch's pursuit of Compeyson, his archenemy and betrayer, begins by his holding him in a vicelike grip on the river flats to frustrate his escape and culminates in his `` laying his hand on his cloak to identify him '', thus precipitating the death-locked struggle in the water during which Compeyson drowns.

Casein based glues are made by precipitating casein from milk protein using the acetic acid from vinegar.

Wicket-keeper Bert Oldfield's skull was fractured by a ball hitting his head ( although the ball had first glanced off the bat and Larwood had an orthodox field ), almost precipitating a riot by the Australian crowd.

This process can be assisted by adding a precipitating agent or by removal of the solvent.

Aurora ( astronomy ) | Aurorae are mostly caused by energetic electrons precipitating into the atmosphere.

He was captured by Pakistani officials in November 2001, as he attempted to flee Afghanistan following the collapse of the Taliban precipitating the 2001 U. S. invasion of Afghanistan.

However tensions between Mormons and non-Mormons again escalated to the point that in 1844, Smith was killed by a mob, precipitating a succession crisis.

King George III of Great Britain abolished trial by jury in the Colonies, one of the main grievances precipitating the American Revolution.

Philip quickly revived Spanish ambition ; taking advantage of the power vacuum caused by Louis XIV's death in 1715, Philip announced he would claim the French crown if the infant Louis XV died and attempted to reclaim Spanish territory in Italy, precipitating the War of the Quadruple Alliance in 1717.

McNeill wrote The Rise of the West ( 1965 ) to improve upon Toynbee by showing how the separate civilizations of Eurasia interacted from the very beginning of their history, borrowing critical skills from one another, and thus precipitating still further change as adjustment between traditional old and borrowed new knowledge and practice became necessary.

* The Battle of Fei River-Former Qin forces are defeated by the numerically inferior Eastern Jin army, preserving the Jin state in the south and precipitating the destruction of Former Qin in the north.

In the same way, precipitating minerals can fill cavities formerly occupied by blood vessels, vascular tissue or other soft tissues.

In some cases, a pigment can be manufactured from a dye by precipitating a soluble dye with a metallic salt.

Two previous governments, those of Fernando Belaúnde Terry and Alan García, at first neglected the threat posed by Shining Path, then launched an unsuccessful military campaign to eradicate it, undermining public faith in the state and precipitating an exodus of elites.

Carl Felsenfeld and David L. Glass wrote that “ he public — which for this purpose includes most of the members of Congress ” does not understand that the investment banks and other “ shadow banking ” firms that experienced “ runs ” precipitating the financial crisis ( i. e., AIG, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch ) never became “ financial holding companies ” under the GLBA and, therefore, never exercised any new powers available through Glass-Steagall “ repeal .” They joined Jonathan R. Macey and Peter J. Wallison in noting many GLBA critics do not understand that Glass-Steagall ’ s restrictions on banks ( i. e., Sections 16 and 21 ) remained in effect and that only the affiliation provisions in Sections 20 and 32 were repealed by the GLBA.

RFE's Hungarian service was accused of precipitating the 1956 Hungarian revolution by giving its Hungarian listeners false hope of Western military assistance.

Appointed Governor of Gibraltar by the War Office, gazetted 23 March 1802, the Duke took up his post on 24 May 1802 with express orders from the government to restore discipline among the drunken troops but his harsh discipline brought disaster precipitating a mutiny by soldiers in his own and the 25th Regiment on Christmas Eve 1802.

The guilty pair poisoned Emily by adding a precipitating agent, bromide ( obtained from Mrs Inglethorp's sleeping powder ), to her regular evening medicine, causing its normally innocuous strychnine constituents to sink to the bottom of the bottle where they were finally consumed in a single, lethal dose.