That comment, plus a similar observation by Douglas Mirell of the American Civil Liberties Union, prompted Judge Ito to explain himself.

Several other observations of the two cousins prompted the investigators to detain the two men in 2002.

This observation has prompted growing numbers of dermatologists to conclude that most dandruff is simply a mild form of the more severe dermatitis.

Such observations, together with animal studies, have prompted researchers to examine other possible hormonal culprits.

Flynn's observations have prompted much new research in psychology and "demolish some long-cherished beliefs, and raise a number of other interesting issues along the way."

These observations have prompted several clinical studies of infusing pathogen- or tumor-specific T cells into lymphodepleted patients.

These sometimes casual observations prompt ideas in the mind of the scientist (2), from which is developed an hypothesis (3).

The observation prompted Heyerdahl to ask Tei Tetua from whence his people had come, to which he replied "the east":

This observation prompts the speculation that chains of right-handed amino acids will form left-handed a-helices and this does seem to be so.