Words similar to prompted

Example sentences for: prompted

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Recently amended federal confidentiality laws have prompted such schools as the University of Delaware, Indiana University, and Penn State to notify parents when students under 21 violate campus rules concerning drugs or alcohol.
A cover editorial says the crash of Asian markets shouldn't have prompted the U.S. sell-off: Asian markets have only a minor impact on the U.S. economy.
Had Kennedy not opted for the blockade, it's clear that the first combat use of nuclear weapons since Nagasaki could have prompted a terrifying cycle of escalation.
Then there are peoples too alien or exotic to the mainstream of the dominant culture to have prompted an attitude expressed in language.
These results prompted some of the scientists in the field who had jumped on the resistin bandwagon after the initial results in rodents to jump off again.