Sentence examples for event precipitating from inspiring English sources

Their criticism of the image of a decaying, inward-looking Spain started several years before the United States battleship Maine exploded on Feb. 15, 1898, in Havana harbor, the event precipitating the war that made heroes of Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders.

ON a recent morning in his double-height studio at the National Arts Club, the painter and printmaker Will Barnet recalled the event precipitating the latest change in his ever-evolving artistic style: a fall in 2003 that left him unable to walk.

A history of a more or less trivial event precipitating the onset of symptoms can be elicited in about one-third of patients [2] while a heritable connective-tissue disorder is suspected on the basis of physical examination alone, e.g., isolated joint hypermobility, in up to two-thirds of patients with spontaneous intracranial hypotension [3].

Grief or complicated bereavement, especially spousal bereavement, is the most stressful life event precipitating depression [ 18, 19].

Patients who were transfused were older (68.8 versus 64.1 years), more likely to be female (47.0% versus 30.7%), sicker (APACHE II score of 26.8 versus 24.4), and more likely to have a surgical event precipitating their ICU stay (21.4% versus 8.9%) (all P < 0.05).

That event precipitated a sharp improvement in Mr. Romney's favorability ratings.

This horrific event precipitated a sharply negative turn in the country's attitudes toward men with nonwhite skin.

This event precipitated a worldwide firestorm that ended the reign of dinosaurs and opened new ecological niches for primates, leading to the eventual emergence of Homo sapiens.

That event precipitated a sharp improvement in Mr. Romney's favorability ratings as voters saw him share the stage with Mr. Obama, and appear competent, confident and presidential.

"These findings," the team wrote, "constitute the most comprehensive evidence to date that the tsunami event precipitated by the eruption of Santorini reached the maximum extent of the Eastern Mediterranean".

Ms. Dunn said that no single event precipitated the board's action but that she and her six board colleagues were discussing their action for "weeks" before informing Ms. Fiorina on Tuesday afternoon that they sought her resignation.