Sentence examples for close to triggering from inspiring English sources
Low oil and gas prices are close to triggering a wave of bankruptcies and debt defaults among US producers, investors fear.
The parties in Stormont were close to triggering an election as the two main forces in government – Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) argued over welfare reforms.
Far from being just a political storm in the Caribbean, the Cuban missile crisis came dangerously close to triggering a nuclear war between two superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union – both nations having stockpiled enough missiles that a conflict between them would have destroyed much of the planet.
Though disdainful of the celebrity showered on other tech billionaires he lives modestly in the house at La Jolla, California, that he bought more than 30 years ago Dr Jacobs's dogged, even ruthless, enforcement of Qualcomm's patent rights has made him as much feared as respected.In 1998, he came close to triggering a transatlantic trade war over Qualcomm's patents.
But the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia never remotely came close to triggering a continental or global conflict, as they would have just a few decades earlier.
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The Arizona planning event, championed by Republicans and the Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force, will focus on the balanced budget proposal that's closest to triggering a convention.
Where war planning has changed in the past few years is that there is conventional warning of North Korean attack, for instance, a missile being readied for launch that precipitates units to go on alert, aircraft to take off, fingers to move closer to triggers.
Most elections, of course, are not close enough to trigger recounts or raise questions about defective ballots.
The FiveThirtyEight forecast has the race there within two-tenths of a percentage point, which would be close enough to trigger an automatic recount.
Tyler thinks the signals are not exactly the same as would come from a real hand, but must be close enough to trigger the particular sensation.
