precipitated

It has precipitated the publication of witness statements describing at length serious concerns held by the UK government about China's activities and intentions.

No details about what precipitated the incident were released.

A spat over seagulls, of all things, and whether the government would postpone a planned summit or make a statement in the chamber about it, precipitated some sharp exchanges between Hepburn and Ross.

L.A.’s nonchalant highhandedness can gall today as it did 101 years ago when it precipitated what secessionists hailed as the “day of deliverance” from the “imperial county.”

Such developments, coupled with growing public outrage, seem to have precipitated a change of tone from the Australian government.