we were precipitated into a conflict

The Canada Institute, part of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has hit one out of the ballpark with its Montreal fundraiser.

I saw,, says I, he was a ree-brained divell, but thought nothing of it, as all the British are so when they come abroad.

Disagreement in substance or essence […] may be called Disproportion, as there is a disproportion between finities and infinities, i.e. there is no proportion between them.