Sentence examples similar to set off a cataclysm from inspiring English sources
Two military officers whose troops killed four university students in May, setting off a cataclysm of violence and the resignation of President Suharto, were sentenced to less than a year in prison today.
In his haunting chapter about Easter Island, he weighed the data — radiocarbon dating, charcoal and pollen analysis and botanical and archaeological surveys — and concluded that the inhabitants had mined the forests to extinction, setting off a cataclysm.
Clever financial "products" broke, setting off a cataclysm of joblessness and homelessness across the country and abroad in the aftermath of which we still dwell.
The stock market began the week in a funk and ended in subdued celebration as apparent progress in the debt-ceiling impasse seemed to confirm the Wall Street consensus that dysfunction in Washington won't lead to a debt default or set off a global cataclysm.
On that day, Clawson himself was in a good position to set off a likely terminal cataclysm.
Does a carpenter set off a bomb?
His proposal set off a fierce debate.
This set off a wave of emigration.
One even set off a grenade.
And both can set off a crash.
