It thus opposes approval of a resolution that would imply an "automatic trigger" for military action.

But with some kind of automatic trigger, he said, "it wouldn't be necessary to get a request from the governor or take other action."

French diplomats said that using such a phrase to describe future hypothetical actions by Iraq amounted to an "automatic trigger" for using force.

France has insisted tenaciously that the first weapons resolution could not include an automatic trigger to go to war if Iraq balked at the inspections.

The automatic trigger produced only a small fire that burned through just one bag by the time police arrived.

There's an automatic trigger on the doors.

Its automatic trigger released a useless spray of mist when she slammed it against the wall beside her.

"In the majority of companies you have automatic triggers" that let executives cash out if a company is sold, she said.

A. The most serious part of this law - there are some automatic triggers in there: if certain things happen, an investigation has got to start.

On tobacco I wish to support compromise Amendment No 20, on the need to look at the automatic trigger.