0 a wire stretched low above the ground that operates an explosive device, a gun, or a device for catching animals when it is touched by the foot of a person or animal
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.
