Sentence examples for is touching off from inspiring English sources

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 standard, first popularized by Apple Computer in its Airport line of wireless products last year, is now being embraced so quickly that it is touching off a wireless "air rush" as start-up companies and telecommunication vendors vie to lock up valuable sites at airports, hotels and other public hot spots.

"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.

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.

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.

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.