Sentence examples for was to trigger a from inspiring English sources

All available data suggested that the planet would be more than hospitable to human life, but if these brave ten arrived and found the conditions unsuitable their job was to trigger a warning system that would automatically reroute the second ship — Dom's ship — back to Earth.

At last year's trial near Istanbul, prosecutors said Operation Sledgehammer was a conspiracy created in 2003 whose aim was to trigger a coup against the elected government of Mr Erdogan.

"Llaneza's stated goal was to trigger a governmental crackdown, which he expected would trigger a right-wing counter-response against the government followed by, he hoped, civil war," an FBI agent said.

The purpose was to trigger a discussion on how the informants act in a consultation with such a patient.

"The immediate effect was to trigger an almost complete freeze on any banking transactions between Iceland and abroad," said Jon Danielsson, an economist at the London School of Economics.

The inevitable effect of this was to trigger an increase in homeless applications, many from families with "complex needs" living in specially adapted homes.

How aggressive did the Soviets need to be to trigger a thermonuclear response?

It is to trigger a protective panic among Keats's fellowship of male supporters and yea-saying critics.

But our ambition for the list is to trigger a debate rather than provide the final word.

"To scare Nicaragua about what happens" if the Sandinistas win, "is to trigger a new exodus of refugees to the United States.

We could see the discount widen further if the sovereign crisis were to trigger a renewed credit crunch, but that is not our base case.