hair-trigger betydelse and definition

Exempel på hair-trigger

• Those bombers were the very stuff of hair-trigger response.

• Indeed, for many years, people have been trying to find ways of moving away from those hair-trigger dangers.

• We also want a system that does not depend on hair-trigger decisions in a crisis.

• Physical separation obviously increases reaction times and induces confidence that nuclear arsenals are not on hair-trigger alert.

• That is the hair-trigger posture, which, as anyone who knows anything about strategic nuclear matters is aware, is inherently dangerous because it heightens the risk of accidental nuclear war.

• Defense was inevitably more stabilizing than relying on hair-trigger offense, we argued.

• He has a hair-trigger temper, and as such can cause a lot of trouble without thinking about it.

• Fishburne, with his hair-trigger line readings and deadly reptilian gaze, conveys the controlled desperation of someone watching his own faith unravel.