Sentence examples for almost triggered from inspiring English sources

One of their substitutes almost triggered a breakthrough.

UN chemical weapons inspectors in Syria are investigating seven cases of alleged chemical or biological weapons use, including three incidents around Damascus after the Aug. 21 attack which almost triggered US air strikes.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average of leading American companies plunged to levels last seen in October 1998, after the Russian bond default almost triggered the collapse of the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund.

Ominously, America is now taking aim at Airbus, Boeing's European rival, in a repeat of the dispute over subsidies that almost triggered a trade war in 1992.With imports surging and exports on the slide, America's trade deficit is soaring.

Every one of Musharraf's weaknesses was to be exploited, with this group looking back nine years to demand a public inquiry into the Kargil war of 1999, when Pakistani troops infiltrated India in a disastrous military incursion that almost triggered a nuclear conflict, before leading to morale-bruising retreat.

A year ago, a deadly chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus almost triggered US military strikes.

Related: Obama says 'sense of unfairness' fuels protests in Baltimore and Ferguson – live Conflicting and confused news reports of a shooting incident in still-fraught Baltimore – including by Fox News – have been unambiguously contradicted by city police, causing a surreal scene on social media and cable TV and almost triggering a return to Monday's violence.

The inflow of immigrants to Western democracies has almost everywhere triggered disputes about who can become a citizen, what should be the demands on people who apply for citizenship, and, ultimately, what it means to be part of our community.

To have taken Kargil itself would have almost certainly triggered a major, possibly nuclear, war so the distinction is important.

This wave of crime, which has now become a shooting war, was almost certainly triggered by what looked like a law enforcement victory: it was only because the police, through diligence and skill, arrested the Aggis a few years ago, that the drugs market in St Paul's had no owner, and the power vacuum sucked in the Yardies with their crack and their guns.

In that context, this second earthquake was almost certainly triggered by the stress changes caused by the first one.