Children are the innocents in a divorce process; they have not precipitated this event, but this is frequently one of the most significant events in their lives to date. (sydsharples.com)
The paper claimed that in two thirds of 12 consecutive child patients with «regressive developmental disorder» and enterocolitis, attending one London hospital's paediatric gastroentreology clinic, the «apparent precipitating event» was a measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine, with a temporal link between shot and symptoms of 14 days. (briandeer.com)
Technology will be vastly different in a few years» time, and there is a danger that precipitating events could spur regulation to create a tech - specific law, rather than gradually applying established legal concepts like privacy, or security, to new technologies in a progressive manner. (ethnews.com)