Sentence examples for major catalyst of from inspiring English sources

DERIVATIVES The multitrillion-dollar market in derivatives was a major catalyst of the financial crisis.

The "Catalan question" was a major catalyst of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, and Gen. Francisco Franco's dictatorship harshly repressed Catalan culture.

I will also summarize results that show how transposable elements have been a major catalyst of structural rearrangements throughout evolution.

We observed an equal frequency of duplications and deletions, as well as a 4-fold enrichment of CNPs within hotspot regions, compared with control BACs (P <.000001), which suggests that segmental duplications are a major catalyst of large-scale variation in the human genome.

In European history, maritime transport (both deep sea and short sea) has always been a major catalyst of economic development and prosperity.

The Lehman bankruptcy in September 2008, with $639 billion in assets, was by far the largest in U.S. history and a major catalyst of the financial crisis.

Nelly van Doesburg, a tireless promoter of her husband's vision, lived on in the house in Meudon until her death in 1975; the house still stands, a modest and poignant memorial to a man who for 10 years was one of the major catalysts of the art world in the 20th century.

One of the major catalysts of change will be blockchain technology, but it won't look the same for every company.

Till's horrible death was one of the major catalysts of the Civil Rights movement.

In that sense, China's reemergence should not be perceived as a threat but as one of the major catalysts of a new axial period.

Most political observers identify the anti-immigrant Proposition 187 in 1994 and Republican Governor Pete Wilson's championing of that initiative during his re-election campaign as the major catalysts of California's transition from competitive state to the solidly Democratic bastion it is today.