Sentence examples for claim set off from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Obama has not issued a signing statement since last summer, when one claim set off a bipartisan uproar in Congress.

Honeywell International said yesterday that it might spend $900 million to finance its pension plan and might not have enough insurance for asbestos claims, setting off an 8percentt decline in its share price.

That claim has set off a bitter battle in scientific journals and forums that emerges occasionally into public view.

Chinese leaders view the referendum as a backdoor attempt to sever Taiwan's remaining ties to mainland China, which they claim would set off a military response.

Mr. Ijaz said the government had offered to neuter the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate in return for American help — a claim that set off fury inside the military, whose leaders have long distrusted Mr. Zardari, and which led to the formation of a judicial commission of inquiry that started work in January.

Not everyone in the group seemed convinced by some of the more sweeping historical claims, which set off a vigorous debate that continued through dinner at a nearby pub.

Rose insists that Gust has no real competition–a preposterous claim that might set off seismographs in San ­Francisco, where AngelList matches 3,200 investors with 12,500 entrepreneurs.

North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test on 6 January claiming to have set off a miniaturised hydrogen bomb, which was disputed by many experts and the governments of South Korea and the United States.

Now Snowden, who had been demonized by the NSA and the Obama administration for the past year, was publicly claiming something that set off alarm bells at the agency: Before he leaked the documents, Snowden said, he had repeatedly attempted to raise his concerns inside the NSA about its surveillance of US citizens — and the agency had done nothing.

She made no claim that it was set off by an anti-Muslim video or arose spontaneously from demonstrations.

He claimed the bombs were set off by western "infidels" bent on launching a war on Islam.