The challenge will be to assert a big role without precipitating a clash with Beijing.
Mr. Reid said in an interview in his office on Friday that Mr. Boehner came to him at the end of July with a proposition: If Senate Democratic leaders could accept a stopgap spending measure in the fall at levels that reflected across-the-board spending cuts, the speaker would refrain from adding extraneous measures that could precipitate a clash.
The Polish government, alarmed at the idea of foreigners owning what would be Poland's largest bank, has blocked the deal, precipitating a bitter clash with the European Union and stirring a broader debate about economic nationalism and Poland's place in a united Europe.
Mr. Boisi's departure was precipitated by personality clashes between Mr. Boisi and other top executives at the bank, executives at J. P. Morgan said.
More broadly, the decline of MySpace is a tale with echoes of the ill-fated pact AOL made with Time Warner: a highflying Internet venture caught in a culture clash precipitated by joining a big media conglomerate.
So when Jess, recruited by her new best friend Jules (Keira Knightley), begins to train with the girls' auxiliary of a local football club, she precipitates a culture clash that ripples outward from her own household and becomes more and more complicated until the big game comes along to sort it all out.
A more troubling possibility is that the North might choose - out of irritation with the UN - to precipitate a border clash with South Korea, either on land or sea, as it did before in 2010.
Serious conflict was precipitated in 1293, when clashes between French and English seamen caused Philip the Fair to summon his vassal to Parlement.
It was a scene eerily reminiscent of the clashes that precipitated the 18-day sit-in back in January and February, which ultimately led to the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's dictator for the previous three decades.
Congress had been deliberating for seven hours when clashes broke out between protesters and riot police in Sucre, apparently precipitating the decision-making process.
