Animal spirits may indeed have contributed to the asset bubble that precipitated the present crunch , although they might better have been called gullibility and greed .
In some parts of the world , especially scandinavia , these institutions have precipitated religion 's decline by usurping its community-building functions .
If he had pushed too hard for more powers to deal with failing firms , for instance , he might have precipitated the total collapse he sought to avoid .
比如说他如果决意要更多的权利来处理破产公司,这可能反而促成了他一直想避免的经济崩溃。
By refusing to support the minority socialist government 's fourth austerity package , he said , the psd had precipitated a political crisis that forced him to resign on march 23rd , triggering an early election on june 5th .
As us diplomats reported in the wikileaks cables , he harks back to the shah of iran , considering that the us urged acceptance of the reforms that precipitated the 1979 islamic revolution .