Sentence examples for may touch off from inspiring English sources

That may touch off a conversation about sexuality".

That may touch off a new attempt at legislation.

If localities try to raise overall tax rates to make up for looming deficits, they may touch off a backlash from homeowners with undamaged properties.

Among the carriers, the June 9 decision may touch off another round of cost-cutting steps and, potentially, closings and mergers in the long-distance industry.

If prospective home buyers see mortgage rates under 4% it may touch off a housing revival.

An expected Federal Communications Commission decision soon may touch off another round of consolidation among newspaper stocks, which would justify these companies' current valuations.

Certain other foods, including garlic, nuts, cucumbers and highly spiced dishes, may also touch off reflux in some patients.

The good news is that an A(H5N1) bird flu may never touch off a terrible human pandemic.

The material, messy though it is, is specific about body parts and teen fumbling, so it may, for some, touch off old memories in a way that is liberating, even cathartic.

Vague notions of a system that may never work and might touch off a new arms race do not justify the cost of withdrawing from a treaty that has maintained a strategic balance between the United States and Russia for 30 years.

Can I risk making them mad?"  Future Saddam Husseins may never get far enough to touch off a war.