The immediate catalyst for this crisis was minor.

Naturally, political events have been the main catalyst.

Or perhaps the Wolfowitz debacle will prove to be the catalyst.

But these memories no longer provide a sufficient catalyst for action.

Friedman was the catalyst for a profound shift in how governments conduct economic policy.

Mere vengeance, however, is not the catalyst for this attempt at lustration.

These fears underpinned the dual enlargement of NATO and the European Union.

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Chernobyl changed Ukraine forever, and was a catalyst for the downfall of the Soviet Union.

MADRID The world financial crisis has served as a quick and efficient catalyst to the G 20.

For Europe and for the rest of the world the financial crisis has proven to be an accelerant of far reaching changes.

The knowledge contained in the Book of Life has catalyzed paradigm changes in biology and medicine. We can now study a biological system in terms of how all of its components interact rather than one gene or one protein at a time.

Hence, the fall of a large bank or investment bank was inevitable as a catalyst to action.

The knowledge contained in the Book of Life has catalyzed paradigm changes in biology and medicine.

North Korean experts said the eruption will trigger a rapid shift and meltdown of North Korea regime.

The presidential election will obviously serve as a catalyst for renewed, and possibly more successful, negotiations with Israel.

The global financial and economic crisis may also be a catalyst for promoting Europe s vision of a new world order. The EU vision of a capitalist economy harnessed to social progress and subject to regulation, rather than laissez faire, is growing in influence.

It is not distance from modern life, but proximity to it that triggers a return to religious identity.

The global financial and economic crisis may also be a catalyst for promoting Europe s vision of a new world order.

For many Malaysians, Anwar s arrest was the moment of their political awakening it was the catalyst of Malaysia s reformasi movement.

For Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980 s, the catalyst for his perestroika was the USSR s growing economic paralysis.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was a catalyst for the IT revolution.

If carried far enough, this process would ultimately catalyze the necessary changes.

Below are several reasons to believe the digital environment can still be a game changer in Russia.

An atmosphere of mortal fear, mutual suspicion, and hatred among the Communist elite was the catalyst for Nikita Khrushchev s post Stalin thaw.

The catalyst for these broad based protests is the proposed construction of hundreds of dams throughout western China.

The catalyst for their anger was the arrest and detention of the ailing opposition leader Ayman Nour at the end of January.

It is China that has the most direct contact with North Korea, and that could best catalyze resumption of the six party talks.

The Olam and Wilmar joint venture is, in a sense, symptomatic of the combination of assets from across Asia that can catalyze productive change in Africa.

Before instituting such invasive regulation, we should examine whether past compensation structures really were the catalysts for our recent problems.

Will World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz s troubles finally catalyze real change at the World Bank?

Water can be a catalyst for regional cooperation, opening the way to a future comprehensive Community of Water and Energy to enhance the human environment.

Hari Bumi harus menjadi peringatan bahkan sebagai pemicu atas kebutuhan planet bumi, yaitu tindakan tegas dan berkesinambungan.

The first contended that overthrowing Saddam Hussein's regime would usher in a democratic era in Iraq that would serve as a model and catalyst for democratic change regionally.

And, in thinking about that, then my second project, the second question I ask is Can a museum be a catalyst in a community?

Wikileaks also asserts that its leaks have already been the catalyst for hundreds of reforms, and that o pen governance is the most effective method of promoting good governance.

Second, caution has costs financial openness may itself catalyze improvements in fundamentals that enhance the benefits of globalization. Capital controls, whatever their benefits in terms of mitigating the risks associated with volatile capital flows, are costly in a variety of ways.

Recent research has shown that nutrition can be a major catalyst of inclusive economic growth, with each dollar of investment yielding a return of 15 138 dollars.

In the years ahead, such firms are likely to press for economic reforms at home, serving as a force for increased integration of their home countries into global trade and finance.

A bubble in the American housing market fueled in part by so called sub prime mortgages was the catalyst for today s financial market turbulence.

Vietnam s emergence as a central player in Asian affairs should not be surprising, for the country was the catalyst of perhaps the key turning point in modern Asian history.

Biden told the audience that he and US President Barack Obama believe that Europe is the cornerstone of our engagement with the rest of the world and the catalyst for our global cooperation.

The Party, alarmed by the color revolutions that toppled post Soviet leaders in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan, is cracking down on domestic non government organizations for fear that they, too, might become catalysts for popular uprisings.

The catalyst, however, was not a blog, but rather an article about the possible retirement of the heads of Russia's three major TV channels and personnel changes in state owned media and the President's Administration.

In doing so, France became the catalyst not only for building European unity, but also for creating the prosperity that marked Europe s post war decades a prosperity now under threat because of the global financial and economic crisis.