Sentence examples for precipitate flight from inspiring English sources

There, on August 27, German artillery bombardments threw the hungry and weary Russians into precipitate flight.

The play suggests that the Iceman could have been the victim of a Stone Age pogrom: that his village might have been sacked by mass-murdering invaders, and that he could have died after making a precipitate flight to the mountains with a determined foe at his back.

Their precipitate flight spread alarm among the ranks of the other cavalry regiments, who were used to seeing the Carabiniers-à-Cheval triumph against the enemy on every occasion.

"But unless the situation further deteriorates," Mr. Madha added, "it is unlikely to precipitate wholesale flight from Bahrain".

In other words, Kahl argued, President Bush needs to be forced to compromise now, or else the war will end in a precipitate, chaotic flight.

This would cause rating agencies to downgrade Russia's creditworthiness, precipitate capital flight from Russian companies, and devalue Russia's stock market.

He concluded that, while there was no masterplan for expulsion, the IDF played a significant part in precipitating the flight of more than 700,000 Palestinians from Palestine.

The surprise judgment has delighted many in Reykjavik, some of whom still blame Britain for precipitating a flight of capital in 2008 after the UK used emergency powers to freeze the assets of Landsbanki, the bank behind Icesave.

Russia's expansionist and pugnacious stance has precipitated a flight of capital that, even according to Kremlin officials, may reach a hundred billion dollars this year; the Russian economy is entering a recession.

But that did not diminish the role of the Deir Yassin massacre as having "probably the single most lasting effect of any single event of the war in precipitating the flight of Arabs from Palestine".

Immediate conditions, such as the brutality of an overseer or master or a temporary lapse of supervision, often precipitated slave flight, but willingness to undertake such a form of rebellion against the system was usually determined by such factors as the accessibility of refuge or the ability to blend in with the free population (some societies marked slaves to inhibit such blending).