Sentence examples for set off the outbreak from inspiring English sources
Their efforts to preserve that special status in perpetuity, even after the promised election of a new civilian government, set off the outbreak of protests against military rule last month and the generals' subsequent crackdown.
Professional prickers included John Kincaid and John Dick, whose actions helped set off the outbreak of witch-hunting in 1661 62, and whose exposure as frauds, and subsequent imprisonment, helped end the trials.
But he did charge three students with dissemination of child pornography, a Class C felony, because they had set off the viral outbreak.
No details were given about what might have set off the violence, although Xinjiang sees periodic outbreaks of anti-government violence by members of the region's native Turkish Muslim Uighur ethnic group.
In 2000, a visit by Ariel Sharon, then Israel's opposition leader, accompanied by 1,000 police officers, prompted a violent outbreak and, many argue, set off the second intifada.
Dr. Hakki, of the Red Crescent, said that shallow wells contaminated by sewage around Sulaimaniya — which had at least two cholera outbreaks in the decades before the American-led invasion in 2003 — could have set off the epidemic.
That has set off the horse trading.
It set off the smoke detector.
That set off the White House and Mr. Reid.
That would set off the default swaps.
