Sentence examples for try to trigger a from inspiring English sources
Some Tories speculate that May might herself try to trigger a new election as a last resort.
if he's gone to Las Vegas to give a speech and try to trigger a bidding war, then, no, it doesn't bode well.
They have been placed alongside Dan Jarvis – who is seen as a potential leadership candidate if MPs try to trigger a coup against Corbyn.
This can result in the person being stonewalled desperately trying to talk to the other; they may even try to trigger a row to get the stonewaller to react and talk.
"He can either decide that he wants to be part of a solution or he can decide he wants to be part of a political issue and try to trigger a bidding war.
McNamara was convinced that no American president would ever actually authorise the use of nuclear weapons unless the US was under direct attack, and was deeply worried that Britain or France might try to trigger a thermonuclear holocaust by using their nuclear weapons first.
The Russian foreign minister suggested the attack was the work of opposition forces trying to trigger a broader foreign military intervention.
On April 22, two days after the blowout and less than 12 hours before the rig sank, submersibles had tried to trigger a dead-man function on the preventer.
The government accused the Zapatistas of trying to trigger a situation "similar to that which occurred unfortunately in Acteal," so they could blame the Government and security forces.
"Nearly two decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Phillip Noyce and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer are still fighting the Cold War in Salt, unearthing a nest of Commie conspirators trying to trigger a nuclear showdown," he complains.
Kerr, who acts as a legal expert advising the Scottish National party on EU relations, said he did not see any prospect of the SNP trying to trigger a second referendum on Scottish independence.
