Sentence examples for account set off from inspiring English sources

All day Thursday, the Cranbrook account set off a debate: Was this a sole episode of youthful poor judgment by Mr. Romney or a larger statement about his character?

Jon Daniel centerr), whose parody Twitter account set off one of the oddest political scandals in Peoria history, at a press conference on Thursday, June 13.

But the news accounts set off a chain of events that officials said was neither intended nor expected by the policy memos and discussions of mid-August.

The account, which set off diplomatic alarms at the White House, was immediately denied by Mr. Cheney and Mr. Ben-Eliezer.

Speaking to a partner, Bout points to the need to launder money for potential arms clients through banks in Russia, Belarus or Venezuela, fearful that an American dollar account could set off alarms.

And it is even harder to know if hacking into one person's account can set off a cascading chain of events that could lead foreign spies to more useful information.

The inquiries come after revelations of an accounting fraud set off a period of selling that wiped about $3.7 billion from the company's market value last year.

One would expect that monitoring could detect unusual access to or transmission of gigabytes of unreleased films or mass email accounts and set off some alarms.

When court records were unsealed in late June showing the Manhattan district attorney had been granted a search warrant to spy on nearly 400 Facebook accounts, it set off waves of discontent among electronic privacy advocates.

According to the trustee, the flow of money just between the Madoff accounts and this customer's accounts should have set off warning bells at the bank.

There were conflicting accounts of what set off the stampede.