Sentence examples for are touched off from inspiring English sources
But by identifying a cellular path through which the three diseases are touched off, they may help biologists design new treatments.
The parent co. is in Stockholm, & is called Epok The lights on the Astor sign are touched off by a movie film made much the same as a Mickey Mouse film.
The fires, by and large, are set; some are from slash-and-burn farming gone awry, and others are touched off by poachers who hunt armadillos and large rodents by smoking them out of burrows and hollow logs.
All the flashpoints of this ardent movie are touched off by deceit; when a woman named Rebekah del Rio — a real-life singer from Los Angeles — sobs her soul out in a stage rendition of "Llorando," she ends up swooning to the floor, and yet her voice carries on.
The furor was touched off by a 1998 article in The Lancet, a British medical journal.
The movement was touched off by the theories of ideal government expounded by Prince Shōtoku.
The violence had been touched off by reports that a Christian had desecrated the Qurʾan.
The dispute was touched off by Air India's inaugural flight last week from New Delhi.
The higher prices for gold were touched off by a jump in silver prices, dealers said.
By all accounts, the youthful exuberance was touched off not by politics but by ennui.
