Examples of tripwire

• One of the ways of discouraging it is to put hurdles and tripwires in the way.

• They wish to soften up the electorate now while maintaining that there is an economic tripwire in relation to the conditions.

• Unless we take care, we shall find ourselves—this is a very serious consideration—in a position of getting back to the "tripwire" again.

• Can we not go back to the tripwire policy?

• I am sure it is not in the slip-shod parade of personalities or in putting up tripwires.

• Perhaps it sees a return to a tripwire strategy as preferable.

• The first argument is that the electoral quota is too low a tripwire.

• In the sixties we were able to rely on the tripwire strategy of a superior nuclear deterrent.