In either case, there is a domino effect of Ahmadinejad's weakened second-term presidency in the region.
However there is the potential for a domino effect if citizens become concerned about their banks.
"If Greece had defaulted, there would have been a domino effect carrying everyone away, " Mr Sarkozy said.
According to Carey, the slump in subsidiary sales has had a domino effect on the entire industry.
And at that point, said bank will go down, risking a domino effect of collapses throughout the financial system.
If any government allows Kashmir to go to Pakistan, it would have a domino effect on the whole country.
Without this safety valve, generators would overload and begin shutting down to avoid damage, risking a domino effect of a region-wide outage.
It could have a domino effect on other countries leaving the Euro.
The action against Banco Delta Asia created a domino effect that resulted in two dozen financial institutions restricting their dealings with North Korea.
This was, of course, the thinking behind the American involvement in Vietnam: contain Communist aggression, and prevent a domino effect in the region.
Other complaints include that the series of downgrades spreads fear of a domino effect across Europe that could cause a double-dip in EU economies.
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This has created a domino effect in ramping-up all-round interest in the subject and has social and political circles abuzz with talks on the subject.
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He expects the mergers to trigger something of a domino effect.
"I think it will be a domino effect, " said Richard Bronson, a former casino executive who now owns a firm pushing for online-gambling legislation in statehouses.
It started a domino effect that went on to reach Tahrir Square in Egypt, the city of Benghazi in Libya, and other parts of the region.
Bensinger, who lives in the Chicago area, said the government must immediately sue the states or risk creating "a domino effect" in which other states follow suit.
There are the glimmers of a plan: strengthen the banks to withstand the shock of default and then build a massive firewall around Greece to avoid a domino effect.
There is, though, the danger of a domino effect, in which the financial collapse of some smaller countries leads to investors taking fright and fleeing even the larger, sounder developing economies.
The first Dow Jones headline said that a Greek exit could trigger a domino effect, and lead to other countries, such as Ireland, Portugal and other weakened countries leaving the E.
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The retired rower then passed it to the young athletes, who lit part of the outer rim of the torch, setting off a domino effect as fire spread to 205 small metal "petals, " symbolizing the nations taking part.
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Germany, Europe's largest economy, fears that a Greek exit from the eurozone could lead to a domino effect in which other massively-indebted countries -- Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy -- may pull out from the common currency, leading to the breakup of the eurozone.
In the end, eurozone governments were terrified that if lenders to Spanish and Irish banks were punished, there would be a devastating domino effect of withdrawals of funds from banks in other weaker economies - a domino effect that would jeopardise the survival of the eurozone.
If someone had predicted six months ago that the self-immolation of a Tunisian merchant would lead to a domino effect of established Middle Eastern regimes collapsing in Tunisia and Egypt, and wobbling in Bahrain, Jordan, Syria and Yemen, we would have written him off as a conspiracy theorist.
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We don't yet know which species will benefit, and which will suffer in response to the changes, but because each species plays a specific ecological role on the tundra, the downfall of one species or proliferation of another could have a domino effect that disrupts the tundra's delicate food web.
Germany is concerned that a Greek exit from the eurozone could lead to a domino effect, whereby a number of indebted nations -- including Ireland, Portugal and potentially Spain and Italy -- may be forced to withdraw from the common currency, which could lead to a full break-up of the monetary union.
Influences contributing to the decline include soft Chinese economic data overnight, worries that any selling of Cypriot gold to help fund a bailout will create a domino effect in which other debt-plagued European nations have to sell as well, plus a strong U.S. stock market so far this year that has taken away safe-haven demand for gold.
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Any delays or cancellations at JFK cause a "domino effect" at the airline's other airports.
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