The incident precipitated a considerable worsening of relations between the two countries, and is said to have brought them to the brink of all-out war.

This incident precipitated his departure.

One unfortunate incident precipitated this abrupt change in the law.

While that incident may have precipitated the disease, eating disorder experts observe that the illness is seated in family life.

In such a state of public mind a trivial incident can precipitate a riot.

Court and campus disciplinary penalties were ordered, and the incident precipitated a re-examination of university policies regarding race.

Until those inequities are addressed, they say, another racially charged incident will simply precipitate more days and nights of violence.

The second incident precipitated his departure from the Catholic church at the age of fourteen.

This incident almost precipitated a war when sixty angry Navajos rode into Bluff ready for a fight.

This incident precipitated the first known transfer between the two Old Firm clubs.