Sentence examples for park set off from inspiring English sources

In August 1999, however, the ordnance announced itself with a bang when heat from a forest fire in the park set off several shells, blasting small craters in the earth and forcing firefighters to retreat.

ISTANBUL — After meeting for several hours with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his home in Ankara, Turkey's capital, protest organizers whose fight to save an Istanbul park set off a political crisis emerged early Friday with what they called a tentative agreement that could end the civil unrest that has roiled the country for nearly two weeks.

While plans for the area have been batted about since the 1980s, the 2004 announcement of condo developments along the site's border at the southern and northern edges of the park set off an outcry from some residents who felt they were blindsided.

It was here, in 1854, that Elisha Graves Otis demonstrated his first "safety elevator" in the Crystal Palace (at what is now Bryant Park), setting off a revolution in elevator technology and sky-scraping architecture.

The bomber was inside the industrial park and set off the bomb next to Israeli security force members as he was leaving the area around 4 p.m., when many workers head home.

Behind the scenes, interviews suggested, the change in course was fueled by an intensifying sense of alarm within city government, shared even among some of those who work for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, that sending scores of police officers into the park would set off an ugly, public showdown that might damage the reputation of the city as well as its mayor.

If you've got a car, you can block the steps, but trying to break into any of the vehicles in the car park will set off the alarm.

The Montammy caddie yard is essentially part of the parking lot, set off by a chain link fence.

I rendezvous with Matt in the park and we set off up the towpath.

The fame of the Asbury Park Baby Parade set off a string of imitators in Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, Long Island, and, of course, Coney Island.

Hours later, Hensley begins pleading for one more expedition in Stanley Heirs Park, so we set off for Hell's Gate with a handful of others.