This action precipitated Price's arrest by police.

I am very apprehensive that such action may precipitate more trouble than it will prevent.

Forceful action at this time might very well precipitate civil war.

His actions precipitated a general election that defeated the Squires government but also cost him his own seat in the legislature.

The action precipitated an uproar among insurers, some of which threatened to walk away from the state.

By almost all accounts, these actions precipitated the country's economic decline.

Such action could even, conceivably, precipitate the very disaster she feared, though she had no idea how or why.

In the vast majority of those cases, he said, suicidal thoughts or actions precipitate the hospitalization.

Eames refused to do so, believing this action could have precipitated greater unrest and possibly bloodshed.

He did the right thing, and was willing to face whatever consequences that action precipitated.