Taking all this into account, the real threat to a stable U.S.-China relationship does not arise from any hostile intentions on the part of either country, but from the disturbing possibility that a revitalized Asia may slide into the kind of nationalistic fervor that precipitated conflicts in 20th-century Europe over resources, territory or power.
Reason and experimental evidence supports the idea that self-fertilization avoids conflict among mother plant, pollen parent and offspring (Shaanker et al. 1988), whereas cross-fertilization can precipitate conflicts that ultimately limit seed and fruit set.
The act authorizing the gold dollar and double eagle precipitated conflict at the Philadelphia Mint.
And they provide an opportunity for a society to rediscover itself, to address factors that contributed to disaster in the first place – from faulty construction and lack of preparedness in an earthquake zone to the destructive forces of inequality and discrimination that can precipitate conflict.
The midpoint arrival of Jeff Goldblum (apparently playing himself turned up to 11) lends a typically fidgety edge to the proceedings, his presence inadvertently precipitating both conflicts and resolutions while providing plenty of oddball laughs.
"The military has begun studying, and taking seriously, the scenarios of climate-induced water and food shortages precipitating violent conflicts on a global scale," writes FPIF research fellow Miriam Pemberton in Want Climate Security?
When water is scarce, large pastoralists are forced to move their herds southward to relatively wetter areas that are usually occupied by sedentary farmers, thus precipitating intergroup conflicts.
There would be little point, within a gradualist approach, in precipitating a conflict too early in the new parliament, so soon after remarkable electoral success.
Mr. Milosevic always portrayed these conflicts as defensive attempts to allow Serbs to "remain in Yugoslavia" even as he did more than anyone else to precipitate the conflicts through his hate-filled propaganda against all his neighbors.
Months of crackdowns and killings precipitated armed conflict, as rebel groups organized to fight Assad.
