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That could set off social unrest, one of the chief fears of the ruling Communist Party.
So far, complaints about rising prices have amounted to little more than grumbles, but serious inflation has set off social unrest in China in the past.
Highly sensitive to anything that could set off social discontent, Chinese policy makers are likely to be especially responsive to any signs that the job market is deteriorating.
However, the discovery of off-shores oil reserves in the Gulf of Mexico did not set off social unrest and conflict (though the subsequent spill just might).
A video that shows a Warsaw, North Carolina, police officer putting 22-year-old Anthony Wall in a chokehold and wrestling him to the ground outside a Waffle House set off social media outrage this week for what many argue was an unjustified level of violence.
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The increases that have already occurred are depriving poor people of food, setting off social unrest and even spurring riots in some countries.
Newsweek Muslim Ragee' cover sets off social media.
Cathryn Sloane, a student from the University of Iowa set off a social media firestorm recently by saying that nobody over the age of 25 should be doing social media as a profession.
That could set off a social upheaval in a European Union member state.
Its passage would set off a social and economic experiment that would most likely reverberate across the country for decades.
When Herman-Giddens published these numbers, in 1997 in Pediatrics, she set off a social and endocrinological firestorm.
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