Sentence examples for helped touch off from inspiring English sources

Gen. Gennadi Shpigun, whose kidnapping in March 1999 helped touch off Russia's latest war against Chechnya.

Mr. Quattrone rose to fame when he helped touch off the dot-com boom by taking Netscape public in 1995.

Gen. Gennadi Shpigun, the federal envoy whose kidnapping helped touch off Russia's latest war against the region's secessionist rebels.

As the bank's lawyer, he helped uncover evidence of insider trading and helped touch off a huge government investigation.

In fact, the trend helped touch off the largest increase in the number of Americans living in multigenerational households in modern history, the report says.

Five years after inflated credit ratings helped touch off the financial crisis, the nation's largest ratings agency, Standard & Poor's, is winning business again by offering more favorable ratings.

That bewilderment seems to help touch off an inappropriate autoimmune reaction against the mother's own molecules.

In 1892 Antonin Dvorak was enticed to the new National Conservatory in New York, partly in the hope that the presence of this musical nationalist would help touch off an American creative movement.

FRANKFURT, Oct. 7 - Google Print, the new search engine that allows consumers to search the content of books online, could help touch off an important shift in the balance of power between companies that produce books and those that sell them, publishing executives said here on Thursday.

He was referring to the collapse of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September 2008, which helped to touch off the global financial crisis.

Goldman , Sachshelped to touch off a modest technology rally by upgrading Intel and other chip makers, but investors remained wary after the chip sector's seesaw performance over the last few weeks.