It is remarkable that news that a career diplomat was dead failed to set off any alarms, or encourage reflection.
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.
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.
Several vehicles in the convoy had already passed over the same spot, but failed to set off what officers say they was a deeply buried, homemade bomb, which the military calls an improvised explosive device, or I.E.D., made from about 300 pounds of fertilizer and set off with a pressure device.
A couple of main courses failed to set off fireworks, notably a vegetarian pasta assembled with an almost audible yawn -- linguine, broccoli, chickpeas, no flavor -- and a $34 surf and turf that incorporated thick, oddly dry filet mignon and a tiny lobster claw.
