Sentence examples for officials set off from inspiring English sources
His return to consciousness confounded prison officials, set off a small tabloid tempest and left Damon in a peculiar limbo as he awaits news of what's next.
HUGH MAXWELL, of Jamestown, R.I., after a visit by Costa Rican officials set off a revolt by American youths at a "ranch" for troubled youths.
BEIJING — A disabled man who was reportedly protesting past mistreatment by security officials set off a homemade bomb inside Beijing Capital International Airport on Saturday evening, injuring only himself but causing a brief panic, according to witnesses.
The call, shorthanded in more or less the same words by several senior administration officials, set off events that, even by the whirlwind standards of Washington in the Trump years, have been cataclysmic.
But in December, officials set off a new controversy by proposing a cap-and-trade approach for another pollutant: emissions from coal-fired power plants of mercury, which can cause neurological damage to humans.
The deadly accident occurred at 3 40 a.m. on July 17, when mine officials set off two explosions in a 550-foot-deep shaft, "even though they knew there was a danger of flooding," according to the account today.
JERUSALEM — A 16-year-old Israeli boy was critically wounded on Thursday when an antitank missile fired out of Gaza struck a school bus in southern Israel, according to military officials, setting off a new round of hostilities along the Israel-Gaza border.
Germany will celebrate the fall of the wall with the release of a nine-mile chain of lit balloons along the former border on Sunday night, around the same time that a garbled announcement by a senior communist official set off the chain of events that brought down the cold war's most potent symbol.
President Clinton has vowed to block the man Europe wants to head the International Monetary Fund, a German finance ministry official, setting off a contest for control of the institution.
And so erupted a shooting war lasting years, officials said, set off by nothing but revenge.
About 60 of them ignored the entreaties of nervous officials and set off in the searing heat.
