Sentence examples for by setting off from inspiring English sources

Harris contends: 'if a mad or bad individual can destroy the world instantly by setting off a doomsday machine, then a good consequentialist can save the world as quickly by killing him' (p. 108).

In the city, you can't wreck a stadium by setting off dynamite.

Oppenheimer recommends destroying the Uzumaki by setting off a secret nuclear explosion.

Neighbors on nearby Groton Street saluted, too, by setting off small fireworks.

He overcompensates by setting off so many explosive devices and climaxes that you'll wonder if the Himalayas are still standing.

So with summer starting, it's up to students themselves to self-educate by setting off on their own.

She says that the sounds give her the initial impulse by setting off a train of visual associations.

He taught himself partly by setting off on a highly personalised grand tour of Europe and north Africa.

Colin Priest's Flash Fog is a recreation of "haar", or sea fret, with movement sensors triggered by passers-by setting off lights and fog horns.

Now a controversial technique called fracking (fracturing) allows that gas to be extracted, by setting off small controlled explosions more than a mile below ground then pumping in water and lubricant chemicals to set the gas free.

They begin by setting off fireworks indoors, building and using a walk-in microwave and, at 11 30, testing the flammability of various foods and playing baseball inside.