Sentence examples for could not set off from inspiring English sources

Mr. Ashooh said that although the $9.7 billion worth of swaps had not yet been wound down, it could not set off an open-ended round of collateral calls like the one that nearly toppled A.I.G. in September.

Or was it because of the perfunctory assumption that the medium of television could not set off a revolution; that revolutions could only have their origin in politics, not mass entertainment.

You couldn't set off in luxury from Kings Cross to Venice, or to Paris, or even to Windsor Castle.

All being well, Electro could have been loved and respected and not set off every car alarm on every street he walks down, thereby probably making himself the most hated man in New York before he commits his first crime.

Do not set off in your hand, it reaches very high temperatures and could easily burn you.

Chondrophore not set off by a plate.

The coach ordered this so the Nets could not set up a last second shot off the inbounds and would have to grab a rebound and convert an fullcourt shot.

I could not set the alerts accordingly.

"He succeeded Mao briefly because he was a guy nobody felt could dominate, so he didn't set off alarm bells in any camp".

And while the amount of spam passed around the Internet in the days following the shutdown went way down (technical term, yes), since there's no easy way to determine if you've been infected, who's to say if the botnet gets restarted, with its central servers in a country that wasn't affected by the cutoff, it couldn't set it off all over again?

With a few tweaks and a little more courage, Mr. Ryan could have made a speech that wouldn't set off truth-meters and might have explained the foundations of the party's thinking.