Now, so many examples to the contrary have emerged that toleration has vanished.Surprisingly, however, the psychological underpinnings of a sense of injustice in particular, what triggers willingness to punish an offender, even at a cost to the punisher have not been well established.
The Obama campaign has, for several weeks now, tried to connect Mr. Romney and what it has characterized as a trigger-happy willingness to go to war, a critique that could be damaging if it manages to stick, since Americans have grown war-weary after a decade of combat.
"But one thing has triggered my willingness to talk about this.
They also avoid stimuli triggering a willingness to maintain emotional and verbal contact.
In the German capital of Berlin, where standard monthly public transport tickets now carry the name "eco-ticket," those revelations have triggered an unprecedented willingness to confront the country's powerful car lobby.
It's often suggested that the death of Diana, a shade over 20 years ago, is what triggered the public willingness to mourn complete strangers who had never been more than a presence on the screen in the corner of the living room.
That means the main candidates are fighting a battle to appear the most anti-EU, with Ukip leaflets relentlessly painting the Tories as "Brexit backsliders" and Labour's candidate keen to highlight his willingness to trigger article 50 despite having voted to remain.
A hairpin trigger for insults and a willingness to call authority figures "jerks" from a safe distance are the birthright of every true Manhattanite of a certain age.
Ewald Nowotny, governor of the Austrian National Bank, is opposed to ducking the guarantee, saying that such a move would trigger doubts about Austria's willingness to honour its debts.Richard Thomas, an analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, goes further, warning that there would be a wider negative impact if the guarantee is not honoured in some way, particularly on Germany's Landesbanken.
It "signals euro area policymakers' willingness to risk triggering wider financial market disruptions in pursuit of other policy goals," Moody's said in a note.
