Sentence examples for I touched off from inspiring English sources

LAST week I touched off an interesting burst of comments after I described Ron Paul, the libertarian Republican, as a social conservative.

The Globe would later burn down (a cannon fired during a performance of "Henry VIII" touched off the blaze) and was quickly rebuilt.

But Mr. Gottlieb's run will be remembered for the furor it touched off: Rory I. Lancman, an Assembly member also running for the seat, lashed out in the news media almost as soon as Mr. Gottlieb, 70, a former schoolteacher, announced his candidacy.

I accidentally touched off a round of honest, genuine outrage.

To my surprise and relief, the novel I wrote turned out not to be a tragic one either, though the story I told was touched off by tragedy.

In part, Morozov and I agree that WikiLeaks touched off a cat-and-mouse game between leaking and anti-leaking technologies.

I breathed a slight sigh of relief when he quoted me a price that was not much more than dinner for two at the neighboring Mercer Kitchen (attached to the Mercer Hotel where Russell Crowe heaved a telephone at a receptionist, an incident which, had I not known better, I might have thought was touched off by his experience next door at the Apple Store).

Velazquez said Rajiv Maragh's careless riding aboard Isn't He Perfect had touched off a chain reaction that caused Animal Kingdom to stumble and lurch Velazquez forward and out of his left stirrup.

"I don't think Americans know the sheer level of violence and chaos that the War on Drugs has touched off, so I try to make the point by sheer repetition," Winslow told Men's Journal.

I sense the Fed's action touched off a wave of program trading and other computer-driven models.

"I was on the receiving end of getting touched off.