The precipitating event in this case is Kate's abduction by government agents, who bring her to Tarnover for further questioning and to threaten Nick.

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

* 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.

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.

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 ).

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.

In October 1965, Jakarta was the site of an abortive coup attempt in which 6 top generals were killed, precipitating a violent anti-communist purge in which half-a million people were killed, including many ethnic Chinese, and the beginning of Suharto's New Order.

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.

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.

The throne of England was temporarily restored to Henry VI ; on 14 March 1471, Edward brought an army back across the English Channel, precipitating the Battle of Barnet a month later.

The financial incentive to discover an alternative to Venice's monopoly control of this lucrative business was perhaps the single most important factor precipitating Europe's Age of Exploration.

Soon after, Liu Biao died while Cao Cao was preparing a major campaign to subjugate both Liu Biao and Sun Quan under his control, precipitating a major confrontation.

* Dr. William Beanes ( 1749 – 1828 ), indirectly responsible for precipitating the situation in which the American national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, was written

During the interregnum of despair between Franklin Roosevelt's election and his inauguration, the only bank in North Bend, the First National, was forced to temporarily close its doors, precipitating a cash-flow crisis for the City of North Bend.

This was the precipitating cause for the use of torture on the continent.

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

Supply arrived at Pensacola, Florida, on 7 December 1860, just a month and a day after Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States, precipitating the secession crisis.

The Nazi movement was precipitating the rapid emigration of scientific talent from Germany, and Muller was particularly opposed to the politics of National Socialism.

Hamann was one of the precipitating forces for the counter-enlightenment.

The Chinese opened fire on the advancing French, precipitating a two-day battle in which the French column was seriously mauled.

He was criticized by Chief Joseph as precipitating the war by trying to rush the Nez Perce to a smaller reservation, with no advance notice, no discussion, and no time to prepare.

The so-called Dorian invasion of Greece was placed in this context as well ( although more recent evidence suggests that the Dorians moved in 1100 BC into a post Mycenaean vacuum, rather than precipitating the collapse ).

A few years earlier, Louis Le Chatelier in France developed a method for making alumina by heating bauxite in sodium carbonate, Na < sub > 2 </ sub > CO < sub > 3 </ sub >, at 1200 ° C, leaching the sodium aluminate formed with water, then precipitating aluminium hydroxide by carbon dioxide, CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, which was then filtered and dried.

This episode was one of the precipitating events of the emerging Cold War, the postwar rivalry between the United States and its allies, and the USSR and its allies.

Similarly, when the Spanish Civil War broke out, Blum was forced to adopt a policy of neutrality rather than assist his ideological fellows, the Spanish Left-leaning Republicans, for fear of splitting his alliance with the centrist Radicals, or even precipitating a religious civil war in France.

The basic concept of Wernerian geology was the belief in an all encompassing ocean that gradually receded to its present location while precipitating or depositing almost all the rocks and minerals in the Earth's crust.

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.

Hoping to bring attention to the plight of the nation's impoverished, they constructed huts in the nation's capital, precipitating a showdown with the police.

Premier Gardiner sent a wire to the Prime Minister, accusing the police of " precipitating a riot " while he had been negotiating a settlement with the Trekkers.

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