You have your handgun out. It's you and the target and your trigger finger and that's all there is."

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

He said that would trigger a cascade of events in which Honduras would find itself thrown out of many components of the inter-American system.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

For example, when a user visited a website that had code for one tracking technology, the data collection would call out to and trigger other tracking technologies that weren't embedded on the site.

WSJ: Online Tracking Increases, Fueled by Ad Auctions

Letting the inflation genie out of the bottle could trigger 1970s-style stagflation.

FORBES: With The Twist, The Federal Reserve Is Pushing On A String

The latest case in point is the European government debt crisis, with Greece once again running out of money and threatening to trigger yet another financial crisis.

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