Sentence examples for set off two nights from inspiring English sources
LOS ANGELES — City officials and Guatemalan leaders have moved to calm feelings and quell anger after the fatal shooting of a Guatemalan construction worker by a Los Angeles police officer set off two nights of violent protests in a neighborhood populated largely by Central American immigrants.
The fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white officer in April 2001 set off three nights of rioting, but the streets were quiet on Monday.
But in Shifang, a city in Sichuan Province in western China, a groundbreaking ceremony on June 29 for a vast copper smelting plant set off three nights of protests by tens of thousands of youths worried that the plant would cause severe pollution.
The crowd threw bottles and bricks at police, setting off three nights of unrest.
In Handsworth, Birmingham, in 1985, another arrest set off two days and nights of looting and arson.
Saunders set off with two other veterans.
Cancio mostly lost money on the bands' tours, however, and his dealings with the regime infuriated Miami Cubans; he received threats, and a bomb was set off at a night club where one of his bands was booked.
The shooting set off a late-night alarm across the Washington commuter region.
When Sam was born, my partner and I would set off at eight each morning and drive an hour and 20 minutes to Liverpool to see him, full of trepidation at how the night had gone.
Fireworks were set off at mid-night and everybody jumped in the lake.
