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Later, Johnson and his friends re-emerged and began setting off fireworks, he said.
Last summer, as Al Qaeda's Arabian branch began setting off alarms in Washington, Quso became more active, Ahmed told me.
He and Domenic then began setting off a chorus of clucking and gobbling turkey calls as the dummy birds, set on metal poles, bobbed in the breeze.
Violence, it said, was the main cause in 2004, the year after the rebellion in the Darfur region of western Sudan began, setting off a brutal repression by janjaweed militias burning down villages and government jets flying bombing runs.
An eruption of the Pacaya volcano, the most visited of Guatemala's eight active craters for its spectacular lava flows, blanketed parts of the capital in ash the day before the storm began setting off floods and landslides.
The violence came a week after Salafis attacked bars and other places selling liquor in Sidi Bouzid, the town where the Tunisian revolution began, setting off a chain of uprisings across the region.
The early rumblings of another turbulent session for higher education recently began, set off by lawmakers' accusations that regents of the University of Texas System — all appointed by Gov. Rick Perry — are "micromanaging" its flagship institution.
Meanwhile, foreign jihadis have begun setting off bombs in Syria — the largest, two weeks ago, killed fifty-five people and wounded hundreds — stoking fears that such groups would seek to hijack the predominantly Sunni anti-regime forces, as the country slides into civil war.
As soon as the concrete was stuck off, it began setting and the finishers had a very difficult time and brooming the surface.
They said they thought it was a gun and began shooting, setting off a chaotic hail of ricocheting bullets and muzzle flashes that made it seem as if they were in a firefight.
But almost two decades after Mrs. Roberson first began complaining, setting off years of inconclusive state inquiries, the agency says it is now moving against a large oilfield services company that deposited wastes at a nearby disposal site that has since been closed.
