Precipitating

Fear of precipitating world war three is the main reason NATO ruled out imposing a no-fly zone over Ukraine, and it helps explain NATO’s initial reluctance to supply long-range artillery and tanks.

Nearby is the office of the late Mr. Arafat's aging successor, Mahmoud Abbas, whose lack of a succession plan is precipitating a leadership crisis.

The Kremlin, in turn, has sought to shift the blame to Pashinyan, accusing him of precipitating the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh by acknowledging Azerbaijan's sovereignty over the region and damaging Armenia's ties with Russia by embracing the West.

This downturn will have less of a regional theme than past ones given its mild nature and the main drivers precipitating it, which are more broadly based.

To this day, no one knows who she is, but her murder was a "precipitating" moment that would make Hansen an obsessive murderer.

In March, 22 rebel Congress MLAs resigned from the Congress precipitating the fall of the 15-month Nath government, and paving the return of Mr. Chouhan as the Chief Minister.

Meanwhile, security officials and analysts have cautioned political parties and individual candidates against forming ‘militia’ or ‘vigilante’ groups because they have potential of causing violence and precipitating disaster during the electoral process.

At one point, the coaches added in another light that meant the players had to dance, precipitating a lot of flossing.

Bombshell focuses on the events precipitating the fall of the Fox godhead, tracing the expansion of the whisper network of women in the workplace that led to his deposing.

Currently, the bridges across the Coonoor river at Krishnapuram tend to trap debris flowing downstream during spells of heavy rain, leading to not only more severe flooding, but also potentially precipitating damage to existing infrastructure.

Only one of these has been successful — when Jim Callaghan lost by a single vote on 28 March 1979, precipitating the election which brought Margaret Thatcher to power.

The second major component consists of precipitating factors, which are external influences, or stressors.

The two independents have nothing to gain by precipitating an election.

Audiences were shocked that the once seemingly healthy Carpenter looked so gaunt in a matter of years, precipitating fears that she was dying of cancer.

On September 10, 1970, Palestinians hijacked three civilian passenger aircraft that were made to land in Jordan, thus precipitating a crisis between the Jordanians and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Eutectic alloys also solidify at a single temperature, all components precipitating simultaneously in so-called coupled growth.

However, these large often precipitating clouds are variable or unpredictable in their overall effect because of variations in their concentration, distribution, and vertical extent.

In 1987 the government proposed to privatize Sudan Airways, precipitating a heated controversy that ultimately led to a joint venture between the government and private interests.

In some cases, a pigment can be manufactured from a dye by precipitating a soluble dye with a metallic salt.

It is also possible for Fighter kites to kill people, as happened in India when three spectators were killed in separate incidents during Independence Day, August, 2016 — precipitating a ban on certain types of enhanced line.