Sentence examples for almost prompted from inspiring English sources

In the middle of the last decade, the chiefs vigorously fought a patent case brought by NTP - actions that almost prompted a shutdown of BlackBerry service.

I had a similar case when Rio Ferdinand was not allowed to play [in a Euro 2004 qualifier with Turkey which almost prompted a player strike] and that, of course, was above my head.

#tricky April 2, 2014 6.32pm BST Earlier Nigel Farage told the BBC that he thought the Syrian rebels, rather than President Assad, were responsible for the chemical gas attack last year that almost prompted international military intervention.

The fly-half suspended his Twitter account as a result of abuse he received from fans, which Gatland says almost prompted Priestland to retire.

It could almost prompt Lord Sewel to stage a return, on the basis that even he couldn't bring this house into any more disrepute.

Bona Sun, one of those who is backing Officer Liang, said the news of his indictment had almost immediately prompted "heated debates" in her social circle about whether Chinese parents should continue to support their children in becoming officers.

At Nassau University Medical Center, a nursing vacancy rate of almost 6percentt prompted hospital administrators to contact Farmingdale to develop an alliance.

The introduction of credit cards almost three decades ago prompted overwhelming disapproval in public opinion surveys; meanwhile, Americans got the cards in droves.

The IOC's decision to fast-track slopestyle's admission to the Olympics was almost certainly prompted by a desire to capitalise on snowboarding's growing trendiness.

Robert A. Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist, contends that suicide attacks are almost always prompted by resentment of foreign troops, and that escalation in Afghanistan will fuel more plots.

We are pushed every day by the media to look at the (usually very real) abuses by our country's enemies and ask: "What can we do?" We are almost never prompted to look at the equally real and equally huge abuses by our own country, its allies and its corporations – which we have much more control over – and ask the same question.