Sentence examples for set off a war from inspiring English sources

That set off a war of words between Washington and Beijing.

Watching the evening news on television, Lula feels sorry for the president, "so like a dim little boy who'd told a lie that had set off a war".

Those words, which President Lee uttered last July, infuriated China and set off a war of words across the Strait of Taiwan.

But the declining sales on the newsstand -- a critical indicator of consumer interest -- set off a war inside the magazine that proved fatal.

The Obama administration's latest report on the Gulf of Mexico disaster set off a war of words Wednesday among scientists, Gulf Coast residents and political pundits about what to make of the Deepwater Horizon spill and its aftermath.

Richard Armitage believes that there is "a large possibility" that jihadi groups want to set off a war on the subcontinent, because "it would serve the interests of these groups to have a conflict".

The proposal has already set off a border war.

In July 2006 two more soldiers were captured on Israel's northern border, setting off a war with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah.

The death of the kitchen hand sets off a war between Turkish and Greek communities, feeding into the film's cloaked commentary about cross-culture relationships.

INTERNATIONAL An article on Tuesday about Hezbollah's increased role in Syria's civil war misstated the number of Israeli soldiers the group captured in 2006, setting off a war.

It is 23 years since Morocco invaded the former Spanish colony, setting off a war that has left around 165,000 refugees stranded in an expanse of desert more than 1,000 miles south of Algiers.