Sentence examples for be touched off from inspiring English sources

Tensions in Kyrgyzstan have been brewing for months, and seemed to be touched off in the provincial city of Talas on Tuesday by protests over soaring utility rates.

People who have experienced it may be susceptible to malignant hyperthermia, a similar, potentially fatal syndrome that can be touched off by certain anesthetic agents.

The researchers looked at the most common form of the illness, late-onset Alzheimer's, which doctors believe may be touched off by a variety of factors, separately or together.

But the researchers are still trying to figure out why this particular virus crossed the species barrier, and some fear that a real pandemic will be touched off by just such an event in the future.

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.

By all accounts, the youthful exuberance was touched off not by politics but by ennui.

The fire was touched off by the pyrotechnics display of the band Great White.

Badstuber's scuffed low cross was touched off beautifully towards Podolski, first time by Ozil.

At Queensborough Community College, demonstrations were touched off by the University's failure to reappoint three professors.