The sudden popularity of the Beatles, and British Invasion triggered by their arrival, became a major new influence in the United States, which not only established the popularity of British bands, but also affected the musical style of U.S. bands including those subsequently formed in Memphis.
Van Rompuy told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that, while initial negotiations on the broad outline of a deal could begin as soon as the British government triggered article 50, the more difficult negotiation phase would have to wait until late 2017.
When he came across evidence of corruption and bribery he fled the country and reported it to British officials, triggering a Serious Fraud Office investigation.
This trade triggered British investment.
The call was intercepted by British intelligence and triggered the decision to arrest the suspects.
A campaign of distraught emails from Parisiens and British ex-pats, triggered by an article in The Independent, appears to have influenced this decision.
Laurent Pelly's staging of Massenet's opera originated at the Royal Opera in London, where, according to one quaintly mixed metaphor in the British press, it "triggered" a "shower of plaudits".
In 2006 John Reid, who was then British defence secretary, triggered headlines such as "Water wars loom" after disclosing that a unit at his ministry was preparing for a world of battles over life's most basic necessity.
It was here that Crewe Alexandra's manager, Dario Gradi, explained how the football club had taken the side of Bennell rather than the 13-year-old British boy who triggered the police investigation by telling his parents he had been molested on a trip to Florida.
They point out that some of their ideas have turned out disastrously, such as when Bill Ackman got J.C. Penney, a struggling retailer, to appoint Ron Johnson as its boss, or when Chris Hohn, a British shareholder activist, triggered the disastrous sale of ABN-Amro, a big Dutch bank, just before the financial crash.
