Let me quote in full a note that Joshua left for Athol, which sets off the action in the play: "I was here today.
Mr. Jones was to play the role of Joseph Gross, the character whose receipt of a message in an unknown language sets off the action of "The Memorandum"; the actor James Prendergast will instead perform that part.
The agent assents to the impression that A is to be done; their assent is an impulse for the action A; if there is no external impediment, the impulse sets off the action (Inwood 1985).
Incognito is brainy, all right; the event which sets off the action is the autopsy of Alfred Einstein in 1955, when pathologist Thomas Harvey saw fit to more or less steal the great man's brain for future research.
This fall on Broadway, Norbert Leo Butz will play the ne'er-do-well brother of Katie Holmes's character, whose return to their childhood Ohio home sets off the action in Theresa Rebeck's "Dead Accounts," representatives for the play announced on Wednesday.
Mr. Dougherty was required to register as a sex offender and to wear an ankle monitor, and he risked being barred from seeing his child being born, events that may have helped set off the siblings' actions, Mr. Eddington speculated.
Merck's Legal Nightmare 09.30.04 The Vioxx recall could set off the next big class-action feeding frenzy.
And given that Greece could use legal means to require all private bondholders to accept losses, the action could still set off the swaps.
The gold standard remains, not surprisingly, James Cameron's "Avatar," the film that set off the recent wave of live-action 3-D films and remains the format's highest-grossing film.
Eight hours later, delayed-action fuses set off the explosives in the Campbeltown, which wrecked the dock gates and killed some 360 Germans and French.
