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The proposed design set off even louder protests.

The imminent creation of a "bad bank" for toxic assets, experts say, will set off even more bargain sales.

convention this month set off even more excitement, with some union members standing on their chairs applauding and shouting out to her.

The fact that a septuagenarian socialist from Vermont kept her sweating through the California primary in June should have set off even louder alarm bells than it did.

The new maps will pit Democrats against Republicans and, in many cases, set off even more bitter struggles between incumbents of the same party.

But it is scary that political upheaval might be set off even remotely because of a feeling of national shame brought about by a loss in one futebol game.

"We think Mrs. McLeod should pay 60 euros for being so stupid," he said of the mother, setting off even more criticism in the blogosphere.

A hallmark of the simulator is its use of rate and state-dependent friction to approximate how real-world faults break and transfer stress to other faults, sometimes setting off even bigger quakes.

The drummer tossed his drumsticks high above his head, jumping in and out of his chair to snatch them before returning to the beat and setting off even more declarations of devotion.

Peter takes with him his father's coat (which later magically saves his life) and sets off even before the burial, simply by walking in the direction his mother has pointed.

The economist Robert H. Frank, who teaches at Cornell and writes a column for the Times, has argued persuasively that increases in income inequality in the United States in recent decades have harmed almost everyone, by setting off, even at lower income levels, what he calls "positional arms races" — ultimately disastrous efforts to keep up with the Joneses.