The phrase "and triggered the second" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where an action causes a subsequent event or reaction, often in a sequence of occurrences.
Example: "The first event was a success, and triggered the second, leading to a series of positive outcomes."
Alternatives: "and initiated the second" or "and caused the second".
The first weeks of campaigning were overshadowed by a car bombing in February that killed 40 paramilitaries in disputed Kashmir and triggered the first aerial dog-fights and airstrikes between India and Pakistan in half a century.
Nor is Rosetta an isolated example: the link between fossil fuel emissions and global warming became clear because of a set of meticulous daily measurements of carbon dioxide begun by one scientist in Hawaii in 1958: the Keeling curve traced the increasingly steep concentrations of the greenhouse gas and triggered the first real alarms about climate change.
It betrays a total ignorance of history; of Russian concerns about its own borders which were used by Nazi Germany to invade the U.S.S.R. in 1941 and trigger the Second World War that led to the deaths of 27 million of its citizens.
However, plants evolved resistance (R) proteins, which recognize specifically some of these effectors and trigger the second branch of immunity named race specific, gene for gene resistance, or effector triggered immunity (ETI) [ 54].
And as political fights over raising the limit have escalated in recent years, chilling financial markets and triggering the first-ever U.S. credit rating downgrade, critics said the time has come to make a change in Washington.
But the All-Big 12 senior, who averaged almost 19 points, regained his touch and triggered the Cowboys' second-straight lopsided victory over Kansas.
Within half an hour of his home debut, he had scored his first United goal and also triggered the first chants of 'Argentina' from the home fans, a refrain they used to acclaim Gabriel Heinze and Carlos Tevez.
Polio and other diseases need no passports, and that fact triggered the first-ever synchronized polio campaign between Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo across these long, often porous borders.
