Sentence examples for buildings set off from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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".

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.

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.

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

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.

The letters prompted fear nationwide, forced members of Congress and the Supreme Court from contaminated buildings and set off a long and troubled investigation by the F.B.I.

WHEN the French government decided in 2004 to ban the Muslim headscarf in state schools and other public buildings, it set off a heated debate over religious expression and women's rights in a secular state.