Sentence examples for precipitate conflicts from inspiring English sources

Reason and experimental evidence supports the idea that self-fertilization avoids conflict among mother plant, pollen parent and offspring (Shaanker et al. 1988), whereas cross-fertilization can precipitate conflicts that ultimately limit seed and fruit set.

And they provide an opportunity for a society to rediscover itself, to address factors that contributed to disaster in the first place – from faulty construction and lack of preparedness in an earthquake zone to the destructive forces of inequality and discrimination that can precipitate conflict.

Taking all this into account, the real threat to a stable U.S.-China relationship does not arise from any hostile intentions on the part of either country, but from the disturbing possibility that a revitalized Asia may slide into the kind of nationalistic fervor that precipitated conflicts in 20th-century Europe over resources, territory or power.

There were no signs of planning and no observed precipitating conflicts.

The act authorizing the gold dollar and double eagle precipitated conflict at the Philadelphia Mint.

How did Roosevelt precipitate the conflict with Japan and prepare the country for war in Europe?

The midpoint arrival of Jeff Goldblum (apparently playing himself turned up to 11) lends a typically fidgety edge to the proceedings, his presence inadvertently precipitating both conflicts and resolutions while providing plenty of oddball laughs.

This siege helped precipitate open conflict between the forces of Parliament and those of the Royalists.

And he worried that the accelerated pace of change could well overwhelm us and precipitate "wave conflict" between different speeds of change.

"The military has begun studying, and taking seriously, the scenarios of climate-induced water and food shortages precipitating violent conflicts on a global scale," writes FPIF research fellow Miriam Pemberton in Want Climate Security?

When water is scarce, large pastoralists are forced to move their herds southward to relatively wetter areas that are usually occupied by sedentary farmers, thus precipitating intergroup conflicts.