Sentence examples for explosions set off from inspiring English sources

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The two explosions set off by the Stockholm bomber occurred on side streets crossing the pedestrian mall called Drottninggatan, the city's principal shopping street, and suggested that a catastrophic outcome had been narrowly averted.

Last month, powerful coordinated explosions set off by two suicide bombers in the heart of Rawalpindi killed at least 25 people, some from Pakistan's intelligence agency, and wounded at least 68, according to government and military officials.

Where was the outrage last week when, on the very day that Iraq's Parliament agreed on a formula to hold free and fair multiparty elections — unprecedented in Iraq's modern history — five explosions set off by suicide bombers hit ministries, a university and Baghdad's Institute of Fine Arts, killing at least 127 people and wounding more than 400, many of them kids?

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Sept. 4 — Powerful coordinated explosions set off by two suicide bombers jolted this garrison city near Islamabad, the capital, early Tuesday, killing at least 25 people, some from Pakistan's intelligence agency, and wounding at least 68, government and military officials said.

In the famous scene in which the buffoonish professor, Serebryakov, played by Brian Murray, reveals that he is planning to sell the estate upon which Vanya and his niece Sonya have depended and toiled for years, Mr. Jacobi's tantrum plays out as a series of emotional explosions, set off on the stage like depth charges, that build to his firing a gun at Mr. Murray.

Neighbors reported hearing explosions set off on the farm, with one even calling him "the dynamite farmer".

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The first explosion set off a similar burst at a smaller pipeline near Xingang Harbor.

He attributes the "explosion" set off by his sermon to "the reluctance of rabbis to say what they really believe".

The explosion set off a fire in the south wing of the building, ABS-CBN television reported.

The explosion set off a large electrical fire that moved quickly through the basement of the building to the ground floor.

The explosion set off a cascade of electrical and hydraulic failures and emergency warnings in at least 10 other areas of the aircraft, leaving the plane with limited flight controls, the report said.

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