"prompt" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His letter initially prompted an outpouring of support and favorable articles in the state-run press.
- The cancellation initially prompted few complaints, but a deluge from listeners on Friday apparently persuaded the station to reverse its decision that afternoon.
- He had been out of college only two months at the time, which initially prompted Villanova to drop him from serious consideration.
- His love of this part of Louisiana would initially prompt him to create the classic poem, What is a Cajun.
- This announcement had initially prompted an increase in the population of the game's servers.
- One of these helicopters recently crashed into an oil platform, initially prompting the president of Azerbaijan's state oil company to turn down my request for a lift.
- The report startled Wall Street and initially prompted sharp selling of stocks, though later in the session they recouped much of their losses.
- The plight of the American hostages in Beirut, for instance, initially prompted him to approve the sale of arms to Iran.
- She admitted that her role as head of the family business initially prompted some second-guessing.
- While motor or crank-driven moving sculptures may have initially prompted it, the word "mobile" later came to refer more specifically to Calder's free-moving creations.
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