Many leaders worldwide see Arafat's death as a possible catalyst for renewed peace efforts between Palestinians and Israelis.
A possible catalyst for Osborne's move was a renewed push from backbench Lib Dems to impose a cap using an amendment to the banking bill in the Lords this week.
Tree species are ecosystem engineers that can modify soil and light conditions and can therefore act as a possible catalyst for understory recovery.
Her aim is to round out a picture of two people to whom so much negative rumour and supposition still cling – Hughes for the fact that two of the women closest to him committed suicide; Wevill for being a possible catalyst for Plath's death (Plath had found out about the affair a few months before she ended her life).
Analysts like Daniel Smilov, a professor of political science at Sofia University, said that while the protests were politically destabilizing and threatened to undermine investor confidence in Bulgaria, the European Union appeared to be greeting the unrest as a possible catalyst for long-overdue change.
Six months ago, President Obama asked "What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price?" Initially the chemical deal was promoted as a possible catalyst for peace.
Despite the FTC's action serving as a possible catalyst for dissolving the patent agreements between the companies, Krensavage says it doesn't have a significant impact on Schering-Plough, which joins other pharmaceutical companies whose practices have been targeted by the government.
Initially, Don was a possible catalyst for relief to the drought-stricken state, but the system dissipated rapidly after making landfall, providing very little in the way of help to the state.
And while most of those groups have at least tentatively endorsed the expanded plaza — including officials from Related, who see Broad's aggressive construction timetable as a possible catalyst for reviving the stalled Grand Avenue development — many sources I spoke to in recent days cautioned that the museum plan as a whole remains a work in progress.
Although the goal of the current study was to evaluate natural hybridization as a possible catalyst for transposable element proliferation, several lines of evidence suggest that biotic and abiotic stressors also may facilitate activation of transposable element sequences (Wessler 1996; Grandbastien 1998; Lisch 2009).
So far, a possible catalyst has yet to emerge.
