Hariri's murder triggered increased international pressure on Syria.
The murder triggered a chain of events in which, within 33 days, World War I broke out in Europe on August 1, 1914.
Lennon's murder triggered an outpouring of grief around the world on an unprecedented scale.
Di Pisa's murder triggered the outbreak of the First Mafia War.
It was almost as though Reyla's murder had triggered a chain of miseries, as though the man who had killed her had introduced chaos and disaster to them all.
The murder triggered an aristocratic blood feud that complicated the French civil wars for years to come.
His 1972 murder triggered a wave of political violence.
The Bashir in the title refers to Bashir Gemayel, the Lebanese president-elect whose murder in 1982 triggered the Phalangists' rampage.
This latest presumed murder triggers military action.
The murder triggered two days of violent protests.