precipitate

In turn, he said, that “can precipitate depressive episodes in such individuals.”

It could precipitate regional hostilities pitting Israel and the United States on one side against Iran and its network of allied militias in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen on the other.

Over the past 11 months, Hezbollah and Israeli forces exchanged fire almost daily across the Israel-Lebanon border, but until Israel’s attacks last week, Hezbollah had avoided the kind of large-scale response that would precipitate an all-out war.

Observers say the power struggle between Indonesia's parliament - which is dominated by supporters of Mr Widodo - and the country's constitutional court could precipitate a political crisis.

The SEC was established by Congress in the 1930s, in the midst of the Great Depression, to prevent the type of market manipulation and financial fraud that could help precipitate future depressions.