Sentence examples for fares set off from inspiring English sources

In Brazil, an increase in transportation fares set off street protests in June, leading to broad demonstrations over corruption and lamentable public services.

The decision, applauded by residents of a city that has long had some of the highest air fares, set off a crisis for US Airways.

In Brazil, a 9 cent increase in bus fares set off mass protests, in part because it seemed so out of balance when the government was spending some $30 billion on stadiums for the Olympics and the World Cup.

In June, fury over an increase in bus fares set off antigovernment protests across the country, with demonstrators expressing anger over deplorable public services and abuses of power by politicians.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority filed papers yesterday saying that it would appeal a Manhattan judge's order to roll back transit and commuter rail fares, setting off an automatic stay of the ruling.

Brazil's two biggest cities agreed on Wednesday to revoke an increase in public transportation fares that set off demonstrations that have grown into nationwide protests against poor public services, inflation and corruption.

Protests there in June over a fare increase set off an outburst of national discontent.

As the protests continued, the national development bank, known as BNDES, announced that it had approved more than $1 billion in loans to expand the metro system in São Paulo, the city where the bus fare increase set off the initial protests.

The fare war was set off by JetBlue, the new discount airline based at Kennedy Airport that offers service from Buffalo to New York to Florida.

On June 20 somewhere between 300,000 and a million people took to the streets of Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the cancellation of the public-transportation fare hikes that had set off nationwide protests in Brazil throughout June.

High bus fares for poor service originally set off the first round of protests this year.