7 sentences with 'triggered'
Example sentences and phrases with the word triggered and other words derived from it.
• « The initial Gothic uprising that triggered the beginning of the end for the western Roman Empire was in the Balkans, but the Goths were then persuaded to go west. Subsequent invasions of Central Europe were directed westwards. »
• « The impact of the conquests on Europe took longer to become fully apparent, but ultimately the conquest of the Americas triggered the beginning of the process by which Europe became one of the dominant world regions. »
• « The events in Paris, in turn, triggered massacres across the country with at least 20,000 more deaths (supposedly, the Pope was so pleased with the news that he gave 100 gold coins to the messenger who brought them to him). »
• « That said, it would be wrong to claim that the Scientific Revolution triggered a completely objective and recognisably "modern" form of science. What early modern scientists hoped to do was to understand the secrets of the universe. »
• « Napoleon responded with an invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in 1808 (initially allied with the Spanish monarchy, Napoleon summarily removed the king from his throne and installed his own brother Joseph as the new monarch), which in turn triggered an insurrection in deeply conservative Spain. »
• « Tsar Alexander I died in 1825 and his death quickly triggered the Decembrist Uprising. Not only was the uprising crushed, but Alexander's younger brother and heir apparent Nicholas I took a personal hand in the interrogation of its organisers. »