Sentence examples for trigger for war from inspiring English sources

You know that the injustice done to my son was the trigger for war.

During the long Security Council debates on the resolution, Mr. Annan said the same nations that were concerned about not granting an "automatic" trigger for war in the first stage of the Iraq confrontation -- France, Russia and China -- "were also worried about a very low threshold" being set for war.

The Peninsular War was the trigger for the wars of independence.

The Kashmir conflict is a potential trigger for nuclear war.

Sadly for ordinary Iraqis, it was a self-defeating one, and the trigger for another war.

The agenda included a search for an end to the long fight over Kashmir, a contest that is often described by Western military analysts as a potential trigger for atomic war.

The trigger for the "war on the BBC" headlines was the appointment of Mr Whittingdale.

Moreover, while the trickle of European fighters to Syria is unlikely to pose a major security threat for Europe, the thousands of volunteers who fought on the side of the Republicans and the backing Franco's Nationalists received from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy could easily have become the trigger for World War II, rather than Poland.

Others belong to those who favor war but see inspections -- which they fully expect to fail -- as the needed triggering event for war.

Her death becomes a trigger for the wars to cease.

The secretary general's comments reflected the divergence of views between the Bush administration and some Security Council nations over what kind of obstructions would constitute the trigger for going to war.