But the prevailing domino theory is incomplete.

The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.

Of course, the old domino theory in international relations was only a crude way of emphasizing that different parts of any region are linked to each other.

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But analogies are not always wrong, and those that were wrong in the past could prove correct today. One of the arguments for the Vietnam War was the so called domino theory. If South Vietnam was to fall to the Communists, other countries in South East Asia would tumble before Communist insurgency.

A significant exception is some forms of the domino logic family.

In such a situation, the crisis will have triggered a social rather than an economic domino effect, which is no less worrisome.

So Bolivia is not a premonitory crisis nor does the hoary old domino theory, to which both Lyndon Johnson and Che Guevara subscribed in the case of Bolivia, seem valid or even half way reasonable.

Banks have not failed, and there is no sign of tumbling dominoes.

Back in 2012, the domino theory looked realistic enough that the creditor countries ditched the Grexit option. Having reflected and pondered over the summer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel went to Athens and expressed her hopes and wishes that Greece remains in.

Indeed, it can be argued that the political dominos are already falling.

But then a wide range of inherently different countries seemed to line up like a row of dominos.

Globalisation produced its own domino effect. The dominoes toppled GDP rose millions were lifted out of poverty literacy rates soared child mortality figures fell.

The coming years or even months are likely to see new forms of these domino effects.

They had a notion, a Platonic notion, of what tomato sauce was.

Some of the motivating examples included the Riemann Roch theorem and its generalization the Hirzebruch Riemann Roch theorem, and the Hirzebruch signature theorem.

Using Galois theory, certain problems in field theory can be reduced to group theory, which is in some sense simpler and better understood.

In the context of explaining price, the marginal utility theory is not a normative theory of value.

It's only a theory.

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Did Johnson s advisers push the country into a disastrous war in order to win an election or, to be more exact, to avoid losing one? Johnson, Bundy, and the others of course believed the domino theory, which says that one country falling to communism would cause others to fall.

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In mathematics, percolation theory describes the behavior of connected clusters in a random graph.

In chemistry, valence bond (VB) theory is one of two basic theories, along with molecular orbital (MO) theory, that were developed to use the methods of quantum mechanics to explain chemical bonding.

Didactics is a theory of teaching, and in a wider sense, a theory and practical application of teaching and learning.

Rather than the dominos falling following America s retreat from Saigon in 1975, a Vietnam Cambodian War ensued.

He said, Yeah, it's an amazing theory.

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The God theory is not just a bad theory.

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Call it the porcupine theory.

The theory of plate tectonics explains all this, including the movement of the continents, better than Wegener's theory.

I'm a biologist, and the central theorem of our subject the theory of design, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

Dual coding theory, a theory of cognition, was hypothesized by Allan Paivio of the University of Western Ontario in 1971.

There is a theory of group actions on R trees, known as the Rips machine, which is part of geometric group theory.

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So why don't we have a good theory of brains?

First of all, it's going to be a theory about memory.

They are removing evolution theory class.

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This is the foundation of the marginalist theory of value.