As presented by Mr. Lysaght, the firing -- which took place 16 games into the season, not long after Mr. Steinbrenner promised that Yogi's job was secure -- was precipitated by an argument in which the owner took issue with the manager's decision to start his own son, Dale, at third base.
The movie would open, of course, with the duel in 1566 that cost the 20-year-old Tycho a good chunk of his nose (a sword fight possibly precipitated by an argument over mathematics, or maybe a mistaken astrological prediction by Tycho).
The recent Islamophobic episode from CNN was precipitated by an argument on the HBO show Real Time between Bill Maher and Sam Harris on the one hand and Ben Affleck on the other.
"Mugabe is deliberately precipitating a constitutional crisis".
This argument assumes that the A.N.C. government could have nationalized, or taken a substantial stake in, the mining and energy companies without precipitating a civil war, something that might well not have been possible.
But they accidentally overshot the mark, precipitating a regional crisis.
"He seems intent on precipitating a constitutional crisis".
In 1924, the composer had produced a twenty-minute stage opera, "à la African-American," called "Blue Monday" (later renamed "135th Street"), which presaged "Porgy and Bess" in a number of ways — down to the inclusion of a gambling argument that precipitates an act of violence and a melancholy female character who has a hard time understanding, let alone accepting, love.
We only re-categorized cases where the evidence was clear that the shooting was unintentional (e.g., the narrative stated the shooter was "playing with the gun" or "thought the gun was unloaded") and there was no evidence of a precipitating argument or anger between the shooter and victim.
Kant's anti-rationalist arguments precipitated a deep spiritual pessimism in Von Kleist - humanity, he felt, had no higher purpose or aspiration to truth - and triggered his literary output.
