Sentence examples for set off a conflict from inspiring English sources

A power struggle could set off a conflict between Guinea's (hitherto fairly amicable) three main tribes.

If the air traffic system shrinks, it could also set off a conflict within the airline industry.

"Every one of these reports is incendiary," she writes "with the capacity to set off a conflict that would be all the harder to resolve, because of the tissue of lies that gave it birth".

"There's no question of the enormous political tension now and any miscue could set off a conflict," said Michael Shifter, a vice-president of the Inter-American Dialogue group in Washington.

IT may seem strange in an era of cyberwarfare and drone attacks, but the newest front in the rivalry between the United States and China is a tropical sea, where the drive to tap rich offshore oil and gas reserves has set off a conflict akin to the gunboat diplomacy of the 19th century.

An article on Sept. 8 about a bar in Queens that set off a conflict in its immigrant community when it raffled off a free same-sex wedding reception referred imprecisely to a statistic taken from The National Herald, which posed the question "Do you approve of gay marriage?" to its Greek-American readers.

Then armed rebels opposed to the new authorities in Kiev took over large parts of two regions bordering Russia, setting off a conflict in which more than 5,600 people have died.

For some men, he adds, such a relationship is "just a way to sleep with women without having to pay," but in the case in question, these two roommates have fallen in love, setting off a conflict between loyalty and love, feeling and duty.

It was here in El Fasher, on the same airport tarmac where Mr. Bashir was blessed Wednesday morning by a hundred elders leaning on canes, that rebels blew up government planes in 2003, setting off a conflict that would claim 300,000 lives and threaten to destabilize an entire region in the heart of Africa.

George W. Bush's "splendid little war" against Iraq wrecked that nation, setting off a conflict which killed perhaps 200,000 people, wounding and otherwise traumatizing far more, forcing as many as half of Iraq's Christians from their homes, many to Syria, and empowering Iran.

Investors worry that a limited strike could drag the United States and its allies into that nation's civil war, or worse, set off a regional conflict in an area where so much of the world's oil is.