Sentence examples for precipitated the idea from inspiring English sources

The need for $130 million worth of renovations on the Corcoran's 17th Street building is what precipitated the idea of a sale and a move of the museum and its associated College of Art and Design.

The report set off a stream of stories about the news; chatter slamming the idea of a company that's precipitated the collapse of bookstores building them itself; and even some stock movements for Amazon's competitors.

While clicking through the site, I came across the "London & the Financial Crisis Tours: Debt and The City" (which appears to be a weird, shitty pun on Sex and the City), and for whatever reason, the idea of turning the economic mess that precipitated the Tories' wanton destruction of the welfare state into a tourist zoo didn't sit all that well with me.

He became the pianist for the band of the very regiment, the Czar's own, whose half-baked mutiny in February of 1917 precipitated the monarch's abdication ("We'd had no idea!").

As its main thrust (from my viewpoint), the text extends and further develops the idea in ref. 59 that introns may have precipitated the origin of the eukaryotic nucleus (as a consequence of the origin of mitochondria) and NMD by the compatible notion that introns might have precipitated ubiquitinylation as well.

What precipitated the referendum?

That precipitated the crisis.

–What events precipitated the disagreement?

A similar dynamic precipitated the current problems.

The Bohemian situation finally precipitated the war.

Police said an altercation precipitated the shooting.