Sentence examples for trigger a spasm of from inspiring English sources

"Terrorism" is implicitly connected to al-Qaida and suggests clear cause and effect and tends to trigger a spasm of maximum responses.

Regulation of Wall Street will trigger a spasm of rejection from congressional Republicans, who, remember, are now fewer in numbers but more ideologically conservative.

Speaking triggers a spasm of coughing, which in turn brings on a tortured moan.

Reaching for a breadstick, she commendably argues, should trigger neither a crisis of conscience nor a spasm of shame.

There has been a spasm of institutional reform.

Iceland went into a spasm of furious restitution.

Then came a spasm of buyer's remorse.

AMERICA is greeting the New Year with a spasm of nostalgia for an old one.

After Bonita left, she said it again, in a spasm of urging.

The Texas senator, in trying to explain himself, let out a spasm of legalese.

It's not the first time a spasm of violence has been quickly quelled.