Sentence examples for is touched off from inspiring English sources

The action, such as it is, is touched off when Scrapple devours Al's stock, forcing Al into an unholy alliance with a real estate agent (L. Kent Brown) whose real business is dealing cocaine.

"Duplex" dabbles in vomit, flatulence and unintentional intergenerational touching, but Mr. DeVito's specialty is the urge to homicide that lurks in the heart of otherwise civilized people and that is touched off when petty annoyances become intolerable.

How long before a war is touched off because of a set of "leaked" photos of a plutonium-enriching facility?

So something strange will happen when Uranus is touched off on both of their charts and that will happen around March 9 or March 10.

Competition is touching off fierce debates.

But the flurry of construction on beachfront residences since the hurricane is touching off bitter disputes over the environment, real estate and class.

The debate goes even deeper than the vanishing public shoreline and is touching off passions about the island's identity and its future.

Now a request for street signs dedicating part of the road to the memory of a slain officer the police say has been too long overlooked is touching off the kind of fireworks once reserved for the Fourth of July.

The furor was touched off by a 1998 article in The Lancet, a British medical journal.

The movement was touched off by the theories of ideal government expounded by Prince Shōtoku.

The violence had been touched off by reports that a Christian had desecrated the Qurʾan.