Sentence examples for police set off from inspiring English sources
This time, police set off the bombs, and fired rubber bullets to subdue the thugs.
The rebels had rigged the bodies with explosives, and the police set off the trap as they tried to move the bodies, but no one was hurt.
The case, whose settlement ranks among the biggest in recent years involving the city's police, set off a raw debate over the use of deadly force and prompted the city to change some of its policing procedures.
BBM is prevalent enough, according to the British Daily Telegraph, that the last message sent by Mark Duggan, whose deadly shooting by police set off Saturday's unrest, was sent using the service.
The declaration to the police set off four raids in which the authorities seized hundreds of case files from the commission's current leader, detained a group of bishops for more than nine hours and disturbed the tomb of a cardinal where construction work had recently been done.
Twice the police set off decisively in our direction, clearly intending to haul us onto the buses as well, but both times they turned around once they got a good look at our baby carriage and two other kids who were with our group.
They fought back against the police, setting off the Stonewall riots and spawning the modern gay rights movement.
He took the documents to the American Civil Liberties Union and sued the Denver police, setting off a series of continuing disclosures about police spying dating back decades.
Two days later, three other youths were shot at by the police, setting off a wave of discontent that rapidly swept through the whole of Kabylia.
The supervisor called security, and officers, finding semen on the floor and wall, called the police, setting off the quick chain of events that led to police officers escorting Mr. Strauss-Kahn off an Air France plane set to depart Kennedy International Airport.
These have continued more than a year after an impoverished 26-year-old fruit vendor set himself on fire in Tunisia to protest his dire economic situation and the actions of the local police, setting off protests that eventually toppled the Tunisian government.
