Sentence examples for motorcade set off from inspiring English sources

As the governor's motorcade set off, life began to return to normal.

Mr. Obama's relief at getting away was evident: minutes after arriving in this tranquil town on Oahu's windward side, his motorcade set off again, to Waikiki, where he dined with his family and friends at Morimoto, a stylish Japanese fusion restaurant.

Parents and relatives of 15 students from Haltern viewed the coffins inside an airport hangar on Wednesday before a convoy of black and white hearses, accompanied by a police motorcade, set off for the town 46 miles (74km) to the north-east.

Finally, Francis and his growing entourage entered the presidential hangar, from where their motorcade set off on the 12-mile ride to the papal nuncio residence in the south of Mexico City.

The leader, President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov of Ingushetia, was being driven to work when a suicide bomber in a Toyota Camry packed with explosives swerved into his motorcade and set off an enormous blast, officials said.

The president's motorcade then set off on the parade route down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House.

The next day, he set off for Najaf in a huge motorcade, calling on all believers to follow him.

The September explosion believed to have been set off by Mr. Badr appeared intended to kill the interior minister as his motorcade passed.

Others in the motorcade thought it was a backfire from one of the police motorcycles, or a firecracker someone in the crowd had set off, but John Connally, who had hunted all his life, knew the instant he heard it that it was a shot from a high-powered rifle.

That set off sparks.

It set off alarms.