Sentence examples similar to precipitated disgrace from inspiring English sources

In this, Simón is clearly akin to the emotionally starved "professor of communications" in one of Coetzee's best-known novels, "Disgrace," whose rejection by an escort-for-hire whom he has been seeing routinely for years precipitates the disaster — the "disgrace" — of his life.

It was never fully occupied, and the road scheme that precipitated its construction, with its dismal underground pedestrian ways, was for many years a disgrace to the capital.

What precipitated it?

What precipitated its collapse?

What precipitated these gambits?

What precipitated the referendum?

That precipitated the crisis.

What precipitated that change?

And what precipitated it?

All precipitated by print.

This precipitated a meltdown.