Sentence examples for triggering the fall from inspiring English sources

He could resign from parliament, thus possibly triggering the fall of Ms Gillard's minority government.

In the 1980s Pope John Paul II used the IOR to send money to Solidarity, the Polish trade union movement that played a key role in triggering the fall of communism in eastern Europe.

They also have been blamed for triggering the 2008 financial crisis.

A British financial trader accused of triggering the 2010 Wall Street "flash crash" made more than £600,000 profits on the day, a court was told.

Packer resigned from Parliament on 28 December 1859, triggering the 1860 by-election.

Derivatives and other complex securities were blamed in part for triggering the 2008 financial crisis.

"The contractor was removing a roof joint, which triggered the fall of bricks," he said.

Some 17% of the colleges said competition from other colleges had triggered the fall in their enrolments.

Bohley was an East German dissident and artist who helped organize the protests that triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall.

David Cameron narrowly avoided the parliamentary defeat of his Queen's speech this week – an event that, theoretically, triggers the fall of a government and hasn't happened since 1924.

The failure by the Opec oil cartel to announce production curbs on 4 December triggered the fall in the cost of crude, with knock-on effects on share prices.