a train of eventsの例文

• It was a simple act-but it put in motion a train of events destined to culminate in explosive national headlines.
• Here he helps the two friends scare off the school bullies and set in motion a train of events that leads to the school's becoming a well-managed place of learning.
• It's almost impossible, now, to imagine the early morning of Sept . 11 a year ago without also imagining a train of events already in motion _ flights boarding, workdays beginning _ and a cataclysm approaching.
• Heseltine, whose failed bid for the Tory leadership in 1990 set off a train of events that led to the removal of then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, said Duncan Smith must be replaced with former Treasury chief Kenneth Clarke.
• On October 30, a confrontation between officers and crews on board the German fleet at Wilhelmshaven set in motion a train of events that would result in the German Revolution, which spread over a substantial part of the country over the next week.
• Russia's financial collapse last August set off a train of events that caused damage as far away as Latin America, but most of the delicate economies of Central Europe and the former Soviet empire have managed to stay upright against the baleful Russian wind.
• Most Americans alive 50 years ago . . . will never forget . . . Aug . 6, the day the U . S . dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, set off a train of events that eight days later ended the ghastly war that began with Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor four years before . . ..
• This might have pre-empted the need for Edward Carson, the Ulster leader, backed by the Ulster Covenant and his armed Ulster Volunteers, to force through a separate status for Ulster, as he did in his amending " exclusion of Ulster Bill " to the 1914 Third Home Rule Act, beginning a train of events resulting in the establishment of a Northern Ireland Home Rule Government in Belfast under the Government of Ireland Act 1920.
• It's a troublesome precedent worthy of review by a president who so strongly supported NAFTA . _ _ _ The Augusta Chronicle, Augusta, Georgia, on revising A-bomb history : Most Americans alive 50 years ago . . . will never forget . . . Aug . 6, the day the U . S . dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, set off a train of events that eight days later ended the ghastly war that began with Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor four years before . . . . Since then new generations of " revisionist " historians have sprung up to challenge the morality and wisdom of the A-bombings . . . . The revisionists contend the A-bombings saved no American lives because there would have been no mainland invasion; Japan was already finished when the U . S . S . R . declared war and would have given up a few months later.