Sentence examples for triggering the war from inspiring English sources

The Irish Volunteers (now known as the IRA) carry out an ambush in County Tipperary, triggering the "War of Independence".

Koh argues that the Trump strike falls short of triggering the War Powers Resolution, which would require the President to seek congressional authority.

It found that Georgia had attacked the Russian-backed South Ossetian rebels, triggering the war, after months of provocation.

March , 1992 Bosnia-Herzegovina declares independence from the former Yugoslavia, triggering the war.

In Europe, the political ambiguities of one religion, Christianity, happened to set off a political crisis that might have been avoided but wasn't, triggering the Wars of Religion; the resulting carnage made European thinkers more receptive to Hobbes's heretical ideas about religious psychology and the political implications he drew from them; and over time those political ideas were liberalized.

In 1821 an uprising in the region helped trigger the War of Greek Independence.

What triggered the war was a series of particular steps, but you have to understand the general conditions.

The traumatic 9/11 attacks triggered the "war on terror", rendition and torture, the flawed occupation of Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, all of which further undermined its liberal reputation.

There has been considerable debate in Israel about the summer conflict, and particularly the failure of the announced government policy to crush Hizbullah and to secure the release of two Israeli soldiers whose capture on July 12 triggered the war.

Here's what's happened since 1997: we've seen droughts without parallel in California and the Fertile Crescent, the latter helping trigger the war and refugee crisis in Syria.

BRUCE A. McALLISTER Quogue, N.Y., June 17, 2011 To the Editor: Re "White House Defends Continuing U.S. Role in Libya Operation" (news article, June 16): When does the use of the armed forces of the United States trigger the War Powers Act of 1973?