A pricing dispute prompted the country to reorient its exports towards China, aided by the opening of a pipeline connecting the two countries in 2009.
In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing cheaper, generic copies to be sold.
The social networking site calculated that more than 150m tweets about the Games went out during the fortnight, with more than 80,000 a minute prompted by Usain Bolt's win in the 200m sprint.
It was prompted by confusion among residents about when bins and recycling were collected.
It prompted a mini-reshuffle, with Home Office minister James Brokenshire promoted to Harper's position and Karen Bradley, Conservative MP for Staffordshire Moorlands, filling the former's position.
It subsequently recovered, prompted by a switch from the traditional 3pm kick-off time to a primetime early evening berth in 2012, which it has retained ever since.
The recent spike in UVF-related violence has prompted the Police Federation to claim the organisation's ceasefire is finished.
Freezing rain prompted the federal government to allow workers to arrive up to two hours later than normal on Monday, or take unscheduled leave.
Robert Goldstein, Las Vegas Sands' former head of global gambling operations and now Adelson's No 2, told the court the Reuters report and "the other stuff" had prompted them to stop "doing business" with Cheung.
Last year's report on the Mid Staffs scandal prompted the CQC to significantly beef up how it inspects hospitals.
Now, I don't know what prompted me to say what I said next, but as he handed me the prescription, I just blurted it out: "There's one more thing: When I was 14 years old, I shot my best friend in the face accidentally, and I watched him die".
