Sentence examples for recently set off from inspiring English sources
It recently set off the metal detector at the airport.
THE Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently set off a ruckus when he attacked America's colleges as "indoctrination mills" from which God-fearing Americans should keep their distance.
Linda Rose Tripp, 49, a former Pentagon aide, recently set off a chain of events which has shaken the very foundation of the Clinton presidency.
The government recently set off an international furor when it ordered that all computers sold in China come prepackaged with pornography filtering software that authorities could remotely control.
The plant, which has suffered repeated problems since being started up last October, has recently set off huge protests in Austria.
An Algerian affiliate, proclaiming a new front in north Africa, recently set off a clutch of bombs in Algiers, killing 33 people and shattering a period of relative calm.
The French actor Arielle Dombasle, half-vamp, half-eternal Lolita, recently set out to show that taking off your clothes at 50 can be done in the best possible taste by singing at Paris's Crazy Horse topless review.
The early rumblings of another turbulent session for higher education recently began, set off by lawmakers' accusations that regents of the University of Texas System — all appointed by Gov. Rick Perry — are "micromanaging" its flagship institution.
Recently, bombs set off in Beijing have been blamed on Uighurs, although they say they confine themselves to peaceful protest.Uighur anger has grown with the transmigration of some 6m Han Chinese to Xinjiang to help develop the region, which the Communists have discovered is rich in minerals.
Mohammad Azim, a 26-year-old university graduate with broad shoulders and a sweep of dark hair, decided recently to set off for Iran on his own, hoping to send for his wife and baby daughter once he reached Europe.
