Sentence examples for building setting off from inspiring English sources

A tank fired at the governorate building, setting off such a spectacular inferno that officers said the place must have been an ammunition dump.

Four people were slightly injured at the Turkish Embassy in The Hague after a passer-by threw a bag of flammable material into the building, setting off a small fire.

A15 Watergate Lives On It has been 30 years since a watchman found a basement lock taped at the Watergate office building, setting off the biggest political scandal in American history.

Less than two weeks ago, a new property owner got a permit to demolish the building, setting off alarms among local preservationists.

The partial freeze would not include East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians view as the future capital of a Palestinian state and where recent Israeli building set off a firestorm of criticism.

The shooting death of Mr. Diallo, an immigrant from Guinea who was unarmed and standing in the vestibule of his apartment building, set off weeks of protests in front of police headquarters, and severely strained Mr. Giuliani's relations with minority communities.

That hydrogen built up inside the reactor buildings, setting off explosions at two reactors and severely damaging a third.

The view from his bedside was impressive — a thousand acres of worn, low-slung apartment buildings set off by the massed arc of Manhattan, rising from the distance like the Emerald City.

Although Mr. Freeman assigns most of the population of Washington, D.C., into a new state with portions of Virginia and Maryland, he preserves a small region consisting of the National Mall, major monuments and federal buildings "set off as the seat of the federal government", as might be required under the Constitution.

Anticipation that the online retail giant would open its new headquarters in this Northern Virginia neighborhood of hotels, high-rise condominiums and office buildings set off a flurry of real estate speculation — even before the official announcement from Amazon on Tuesday morning.

A night of prank-pulling and general subversiveness (they break into SeaWorld! They break into other buildings!) sets off a Sal Paradise-esque emotional awakening in once-vanilla Q, and the two prattle off Pinterest-worthy quotes about the meaning of life that are a little cringe-inducing to non-teens, but no less so than Sal's desire to "burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles".