Sentence examples for organizations set off from inspiring English sources

CAIRO — An Egyptian ministry has rejected the applications for registration of eight American nonprofit groups, state media reported, in the government's first action on the status of foreign-backed nonprofit groups since its criminal prosecution of three American-backed organizations set off a crisis in relations with Washington this year.

Disclosure of the program's existence in 2006 by The New York Times and other news media organizations set off protests in Europe, and to a lesser extent in the United States, over what critics charged were privacy violations and possible illegality.

Early on, engineers would test apps on a single device, but given how many phones and tablets there are on the market today, that simply didn't scale and a small team within Facebook's Production Engineering organization set off to build these racks.

"Businessmen in search of social and political recognition found the solution in buying media organizations, which set off an artificial growth in the number of magazines, television stations and other media groups," Haluk Sahin, a columnist at the newspaper Radikal, said in an interview.

A terrorist organization collects enough radiological material to set off what is called a "dirty bomb" in the stadium of a major city, triggering widespread harm and panic.

The proposed change has pitted many professors against several student organizations that have endorsed the plan, and set off a rare systemwide public relations war.

Press Trust of India said a Pakistan-based militant group, Jamiat-ul-Mujahedeen, called news organizations in Srinagar to say it had set off the blast.

It was not until Buffett became a board member at Salomon, Inc. that his unconventional views on compensation set off a firestorm within the organization he was overseeing.

The column -- which ran under the headline "Time to Think About Torture" -- set off alarm bells at human rights organizations.

Indeed, there hasn't been any obvious, profound response; the UCHC agreement didn't set off a unionization frenzy among postdoc organizations.

But graphic photographs of the bloody message, written in capital letters in English, set off a frenzy of speculation by some Russian news organizations.