The murder triggered a chain of events in which, within 30 days, World War I broke out in Europe.

Rayner would eventually become Parallax's arch-nemesis, and during their first battle, Rayner intentionally triggered a chain reaction in Oa's core, causing the planet to explode.

This rapid growth triggered a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core 3D CAD / CAM software and led to what is known today as Dassault Systèmes.

He set a booby trap with a weighted plant pot on a chain, which was triggered by the victim opening the radio cabinet after locking up for the night.

This means of advertisement triggered an unusual viewer response in April 2009, when fans of the television series Chuck took advantage of product placement in the series by the restaurant chain Subway as part of a grassroots effort to save the show from cancellation.

Yet another example of this effect in a scientific experiment was the implosion in 2001 of several thousand fragile glass photomultiplier tubes used in the Super-Kamiokande experiment, where the shock wave caused by the failure of a single detector appears to have triggered the implosion of the other detectors in a chain reaction.

The formation of FORD triggered a chain of events that were to change Kenya's political landscape, culminating in ending KANU's 40 years in power – eight years after Odinga's death.

Nzebi ( or Njebi ), a Bantu language of Gabon, has the following chain shift, triggered morphophonologically by certain tense / aspect suffixes:

Sometimes chain reactions, called cascades, are triggered, where chains are formed by the falling gems.

This triggered the chain of events which exposed the Watergate scandal and eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

Although the chain of events unleashed by the assassination triggered the war, the war's origins go deeper, involving national politics, cultures, economics, and a complex web of alliances and counterbalances that had developed between the various European powers since 1870.

The Cedar Revolution ( Arabic: ثورة الأرز-thawrat al-arz ) or Independence Intifada ( Arabic: انتفاضة الاستقلال-intifāḍat al-istiqlāl ) was a chain of demonstrations in Lebanon ( especially in the capital Beirut ) triggered by the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005.

When the Primagen's Lightship was destroyed, the chain reaction it triggered as a result was so powerful that the universe as it existed was completely eradicated, and the almighty Oblivion was pushed to the very brink of destruction.

A chain reaction is a type of chemical or nuclear reaction in which the formation of one product leads directly to another or series of any events where each one is triggered by the previous event.

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered a chain of international events that embroiled Russia and the major European powers.

An allergic reaction also may be triggered by eating foods that have been processed with machines that have previously processed celery, making avoiding such foods difficult.

In patients whose respiratory muscles are already weak, crises may be triggered by infection, fever, an adverse reaction to medication, or emotional stress.

Being the first publications to question the official Macedonian position of the existence of a distinct Macedonian identity going back to the time of Alexander the Great ( Macedonism ), the books triggered a reaction of shock and disbelief in Macedonian public opinion.

The immune reaction can be triggered by infections, drugs, or medications.

This triggered a nationalist reaction and the coup d ' état of 9 June 1923 eventually resulted in Stamboliykski's assassination.

In the case of the opossum, the reaction seems to be involuntary, and to be triggered by extreme fear.

The action gained widespread publicity and triggered an immediate reaction by the Fascist regime.

They can also fail if the pipe is fully sealed and the chemical reaction triggered, but the total pressure buildup from the chemicals is insufficient to exceed the casing strength ; such a bomb is a dud but still potentially dangerous if handled, since an external shock could trigger rupture of the statically-pressurized casing.

Some evidence suggests that laughing associated with tickling is a nervous reaction that can be triggered ; indeed, very ticklish people often start laughing before actually being tickled.

Posttraumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ) is a psychological reaction which triggered by an environmental stressor.

Since ReactOS is a free and open source software development project, the claim triggered a negative reaction by the free software community ; in particular, Wine barred several now inactive developers from providing contributions and formal high level cooperation between the two projects still remains difficult.

In the second process, triggered primarily by UV-B, there is an increase in production of melanin ( melanogenesis ), which is the body's reaction to direct photodamage ( formation of pyrimidine dimers ) from UV radiation.

The thermogenic reaction is triggered when concentrations of acetosalicytic acid form in the sterile zone.

A Type I reaction can be triggered by exposure to airborne particles resulting from the inflation of balloons even if the person is not present while the balloons are being inflated.

The trapping mechanism of Utricularia is purely mechanical ; no reaction from the plant ( irritability ) is required in the presence of prey, in contrast with the triggered mechanisms employed by Venus Flytraps ( Dionaea ), waterwheels ( Aldrovanda ), and many sundews ( Drosera ).

A case study in 2000 noticed a " marked and severe inflammatory reaction characterized by eosinophilia and glomerulonephritis " and wondered whether this " might have been triggered by the leukotriene receptor antagonist, montelukast.

It has been postulated that Buerger ’ s disease is an “ autoimmune ” reaction ( one in which the body ’ s immune system attacks the body ’ s own tissues ) triggered by some constituent of tobacco.

This will block the reaction triggered by the catecholamines should a hypoglycaemic episode occur.

This is in contrast to some older reactor designs, where the natural tendency for the reaction was to accelerate rapidly from increased temperatures, such that either electronic feedback or operator triggered intervention was necessary to prevent damage to the reactor.

Fallmerayer's ideas caused fierce reaction from various scholars of the newly established Greek state and triggered a search for continuity within Greek historiography, in an attempt to prove the existence of links between modern Greeks and the ancient Greek civilization.

And to do this requires first of all the kind of information about people which is provided by the scientists in industrial anthropology and consumer research, who, for example, tell Courtenay that three days is the `` optimum priming period for a closed social circuit to be triggered with a catalytic cue-phrase '' -- which means that an effective propaganda technique is to send an idea into circulation and then three days later reinforce or undermine it.

* 2007: On September 16, 2007, hunter Rick Jacobs captured an image of a supposed Sasquatch by using an automatically triggered camera attached to a tree, prompting a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Game Commission to say that it was likely an image of " a bear with a severe case of mange.

A task switch can be explicitly triggered with a CALL or JMP instruction targeted at a TSS descriptor in the global descriptor table.

Sometimes, for the sake of appearance or of the desired " feel " of the instrument, a drum with a trigger will be used as a trigger pad by muffling it so heavily that no significant sound at all is produced, see Electronic drum # Acoustic triggered drum kit.

During the period that has elapsed since seizures which triggered the tuna import ban, successive Ecuadorian governments have declared their willingness to explore possible solutions to this problem with mutual respect for longstanding positions and principles of both sides.

Several decades after Pearson's work with early versions of meta-analysis, Glass published the first application of modern meta-analytic techniques and triggered their broad application across the social and biomedical sciences.

For example, patients with primary reading epilepsy have seizures triggered by reading.

Upon contact with prey, the contents of the nematocyst are explosively discharged, firing a dart-like thread containing neurotoxins into whatever triggered the release which can paralyse the prey, especially if many hundreds of nematocysts are fired.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 was triggered by a combination of economic breakdown, war weariness, and discontent with the autocratic system of government, and it first brought a coalition of liberals and moderate socialists to power, but their failed policies led to seizure of power by the Communist Bolsheviks on 25 October.

This triggered a prolonged Russo-Polish War which ended with the Treaty of Andrusovo ( 1667 ), where Poland accepted the loss of Left-bank Ukraine, Kiev and Smolensk.

In this sense, the evidence with regard to the evolution of straight hair texture seems to support Jablonski's suggestions that the need for vitamin D triggered the transition from dark to pale, translucent skin among modern humans.

However, the Invasion of Kuwait that triggered the Gulf War brutally changed Iraq's relations with the Arab World and the West.

This rift with the Soviet Union brought Tito much international recognition, but also triggered a period of instability often referred to as the Informbiro period.

They entered the American League along with the Kansas City Royals as part of a hasty round of expansion triggered by the Kansas City Athletics ' move to Oakland.

It is triggered by zero or negative input signal applied to Q2 base ( with the same success it can be triggered by applying a positive input signal through a resistor to Q1 base ).

It is possible to complete some of the levels ' goals by wandering around the landscape of Nightopia as Claris or Elliot ( pursued by an egg-shaped alarm clock which will wake up the child and end the level if it catches the player ), but the majority of the gameplay centers on Nights ' flying sequences, triggered by walking into the Ideya palace near the start of each level and merging with the imprisoned acrobat.

However, fifteen years later his views had changed, with Blench ( 2011 ) proposing instead that the noun-classifier system of Central Sudanic, commonly reflected in a tripartite general – singulative – plurative number system, triggered the development or elaboration of the noun-class system of the Atlantic – Congo languages, with tripartite number marking surviving in the Plateau and Gur languages of Niger – Congo, and the lexical similarities being due to loans.

Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, an enemy vessel.

This is due to a 20th-century development triggered by Ferdinand de Saussure's insistence on the importance of synchronic analysis, and the later emergence of structuralism and Chomskyan linguistics with its emphasis on syntax.

By using a smaller turbocharger running at increased boost, slightly higher compression of 8: 1 and an improved fuel injection system with DITC ignition triggered by the flywheel, reliability improved and power rose to.

In the nightcap came his first extra-base hit, a 6th-inning double, as well as another single, which, in conjunction with aggressive base-running, triggered a 2-run, 8th-inning rally, narrowing the Dodgers ' lead to one ; one inning later, the Pirates ' comeback would fall one run short, with the go-ahead run on base, and Clemente on deck.