Sentence examples for firework set off from inspiring English sources

In February a cameraman covering a protest in Rio de Janeiro died after being struck by a firework set off by two of the group's members.

In February a television cameraman covering a protest in Rio de Janeiro died after being struck by a firework set off by two "Black Blocs", members of an anarchist group.

Rather than budgetary pragmatism, the changes seem to be the fiscal equivalent of a firework set off during an earthquake the earthquake being Mr Darling's staggering debt projections, his Panglossian growth forecasts and a public-spending squeeze of a kind Labour once excoriated.

Someone ignited a flare or a firework, setting off the stampede, said Deputy Mayor Miguel Ángel Villanueva.

Yesterday's fireworks, set off at two sites, were detonated electronically by uniformed pyrotechnicians from a large fireworks company.

In 1858, the cupola was ravaged by a blaze started by fireworks set off during the celebration of the completion of the trans-Atlantic cable.

Officials also suspect that fireworks set off the blaze that blackened parts of a historic town in Chongqing and another that consumed a 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-old 1,000-year-oldvince.

The work refers to a fire started by fireworks set off by a provincial government official, which resulted in the death of a firefighter.

Crowds gather occasionally at a small beach off Long Sands Road, where on the Fourth of July fireworks set off in nearby towns can be seen and heard.

Another was creating visual embroidery for a stage work that drew its power from the emotional fireworks set off in that dreary drug chamber.

The birds don't seem to have been poisoned; one theory is that they were traumatized by fireworks set off for New Year's.