Sentence examples for failed to set off from inspiring English sources
It is remarkable that news that a career diplomat was dead failed to set off any alarms, or encourage reflection.
Although he burned the wall of the airplane's cabin — and his genitals — he failed to set off the device, a nonmetallic bomb made by Yemeni terrorists.
Still, without a verdict and a huge payout that would have grabbed attention, the collapse of the Tompkins Hill Road overpass failed to set off alarms among officials in Sacramento about bridges and quakes.
The inevitability of such an arrangement was such that the prom date failed to set off alarm bells among their parents, the couple explained, because it was viewed as inconsequential, something modern American kids did for fun.
At the time, investigators said detonators failed to set off the explosives, which may have been of a homemade type known as triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, and nicknamed by insurgents the Mother of Satan.
And something else to consider: the events of the past few years, in which a tripling of the monetary base has failed to set off high inflation, and huge deficits have failed to send interest rates soaring, represent a predictive success for IS-LM-type macro fully comparable to the way stagflation represented a success for macro with thinking about microfoundations.
Total functional inactivation of the p53 gene will cause genetic damage to accumulate in the cell and will also fail to set off apoptosis in severely injured cells.
Among men who deal in the selling and trading of elephants, the mere mention of Venkitachalam's name never fails to set off a rant.
Anyway a quiet over gets a frantic finale when Pietersen charges for a quick single and Cook fails to set off.
In Mr. Reid's shoe bombs, in 2001, a highly unstable explosive known as triacetone triperoxide, or TATP, was the detonator for the PETN, but Mr. Reid failed to set it off when he was unable to light the fuse.
The Knicks got the ball with 10 seconds remaining, but they failed to set up a play or get off a clean shot, and Jamal Crawford's desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer fell well short.
