The phrase "acting as a trigger" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that initiates or causes a reaction or event to occur.
Example: "The sudden loud noise was acting as a trigger for her anxiety, causing her to feel overwhelmed."
Alternatives: "serving as a catalyst" or "functioning as an instigator."
The moves are intended to underline the alliance's commitment to the collective defence of all its members – including the Baltic States of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, which, like Ukraine, have significant Russian-speaking minorities as well as acting as a "trigger" in the event of any aggression.
In another chapter Mr. Berger reports that NASA's Mars Pathfinder project bolstered the sales of Mars bars simply by acting "as a trigger that reminded people of the candy," and that Cheerios gets more word of mouth than Disney World (even though the Magic Kingdom is presumably a more interesting topic) because so many more people eat the cereal every day than go to Disney World.
A qualitative study by Haley et al. (2014) suggested that HIV stigma negatively influenced many aspects of respondents' lives, including acting as a trigger for substance use and impairing one's ability to prioritize HIV care.
An Afghan boy is currently serving a five-year jail term for planting an improvised explosive device (IED) and acting as a "trigger man", in the area around the time of Cpl Curley's death.
For someone who is experiencing migraines, the side they occur on is typically where that person's sensory nerve is acting as a trigger, which then sets off a migraine inside the brain.
These criteria were implemented to decrease extra-musical associations [3], and ensure that the music was pleasurable in itself and not acting as a trigger for emotional memories.
In recent years, however, concerns have been raised about rail transit acting as a gentrification trigger and causing the affordability paradox.
Multidrug active efflux systems can pump out an astonishing number of unrelated antibiotics, any of these substrates acting as a potential trigger [ 10].
Thus, diabetic neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy and diabetic nephropathy, which are all microvascular complications, may be mutually and closely related, with diabetic neuropathy acting as a possible trigger for the onset or progression of the other complications.
19– 22 Moreover, altered immune response regulation may shift the physiological equilibrium over a chronic-cumulative period, leading to a low-grade inflammatory degenerative process, known as para-inflammation, with the oxidative stress acting as a local trigger for retinal para-inflammatory responses.
The finding of a CpG island spreading from position 135 to 241 bp in PSUcentSat (fig. 1) indicates a possible DNA methylation transcription mediator, acting as a simple triggering mechanism, identical to that of the majority of gene promoters.
