Sentence examples for governments set off from inspiring English sources

Margaret Thatcher's governments set off a series of changes that have been followed through by successive administrations and changes that can be traced back to the Thatcher years.

In November, the Dubai government set off a wave of investor panic after it told creditors that it would delay interest payments on the debt that Dubai World owed.

Just one day after the last American troops left, the Shiite government set off a maelstrom by accusing the Sunni vice president of running death squads.

Mr. Maliki's Shiite-led government set off a controversy this week when it accused the Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, of running a death squad.

Their efforts to preserve that special status in perpetuity, even after the promised election of a new civilian government, set off the outbreak of protests against military rule last month and the generals' subsequent crackdown.

A small Marxist revolutionary party, the Workers Partyy of Marxist Unification (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista; POUM), which rejected the Popular Front in favour of a workers' government, set off a rebellion in Barcelona in May 1937.

The Chinese government set off international alarm in September when it imposed an unannounced embargo for two months on shipments of raw rare earths to Japan during a territorial dispute.

Mr. Akayev's resignation, submitted last week in Russia, where he fled after the uprising last month against his government set off a political dispute over his privileges and jockeying among those seeking to succeed him.

Mrs. Kirchner's government set off the farmers' rebellion on March 11, when it created a new sliding-scale system of export taxes that increased taxes on soy beans, among other products, to 45percentt from 35percentt.

Here he reaches further back into Vietnam's history: it is 1773, the country is called Annam, and three French missionaries, financed by the French government, set off to convert the Annamese to Christianity.

Still, the government set off a bitter domestic debate this spring when it confirmed that it had paid more than half a billion dollars for fighter jets and other military hardware — almost triple the amount of its own money dedicated to the entire public health system in the last fiscal year.