Sentence examples for precipitated a wave of from inspiring English sources
The city's 1995 revitalization plan for lower Manhattan precipitated a wave of residential conversions in the financial district.
The Google-DoubleClick deal precipitated a wave of consolidation in the online advertising industry, including Microsoft's proposed acquisition of aQuantive, a DoubleClick rival, and Yahoo's acquisition of Right Media, which runs an online advertising marketplace.
In each case, it's now known, the arrival of humans precipitated a wave of extinctions; it's just that, as Russell points out, these "tragedies" were not recorded by the people who produced them.
A move toward collective creation in the late 1960s precipitated a wave of vigorous avant-garde companies such as Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil and Jérôme Savary's Grand Magic Circus.
Bowie's breakthrough album, the glam sci-fi fantasy that was The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972), precipitated a wave of fan hysteria that, indeed, harked back to Beatlemania, but also signalled the darker, often sexually ambivalent, energies of the punk-rock revolution of the late 1970s.
If this action precipitates a wave of consolidation in an already consolidated industry, it is hard to see how that result will be good for consumers".
Markus Persson didn't precipitate a wave of new rich indies.
Precipitating a wave of demand for basic infrastructure, raw materials, agricultural foodstuffs and energy, the China-India-Brazil boom carried along with it a host of trading partners both supplying essentials as well as the recipient of low-priced exports.
Whereas individualised tenure theoretically confers the highest possible benefits in the property rights bundle, individualisation can also precipitate a wave of dispossession among poor households unable to neither meet stringent development regulations nor withstand market vicissitudes.
The 79-year-old Swiss agreed to stand down days after his re-election in May, amid a mounting crisis precipitated by a wave of arrests and indictments by the US Department of Justice.
The looming growth gap could precipitate a new wave of megamergers, as companies seek temporary fixes by hooking up with rivals and slashing overhead.
