Sentence examples for bill set off from inspiring English sources

(The bill set off huge immigrants'-rights protests in dozens of cities in 2006).

The original bill set off protests from women's groups and others.

In Russia, where a land-reform bill set off fisticuffs on the floor of the Duma in the mid-1990s, private land ownership remains a controversial subject.

(The bill set off huge immigrants'-rights protests in dozens of cities in 2006). The post-Bush, pre-Tancredo era of the Republican Party had begun.

The bill, set off by a new American law punishing Russians accused of human rights abuses, cleared the lower house of Parliament on Friday and is considered likely to pass the upper house.

The Reagan bill set off a bidding war, and soon its reduction in income tax rates was supplemented with an array of tax cuts for business intended to win swing votes.

But the House argues there are procedural violations in the bill, setting off weeks of negotiations about how to change the bill.

The federal government began mandating the use of ethanol in a 2005 energy bill, setting off a building boom in ethanol plants.

Though some Republicans suggest that the bill would set off a trade war, others, as well as some Democrats, say the bill is needed to save American jobs.

The bill has set off protests by the Church of Scientology and the Unification Church, among others.

Passage of the bill would set off a state rush for help from the limited group of contractors who have built big systems.