Sentence examples for setting off a fight from inspiring English sources
Soon its focus shifted, as the Energy Department, led by Spencer Abraham, became increasingly involved, setting off a fight that reverberated inside the E.P.A. as officials there said they felt outmaneuvered.
Unite merged with the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees International Union in 2006, to form Unite Here, but when a civil war erupted between the old Unite apparel part of the union and the hotel workers union, the apparel workers walked out of the merger, setting off a fight over who would control Amalgamated Bank.
Rather than banning those products outright and setting off a fight with the United States at the World Trade Organization, E.U. officials and lawmakers had been expected to agree to set up a system within two years to label foods derived from clones.
Lawmakers said that could set off a fight between wealthier and poorer districts.
According to West, the best trolls enter a conversation, make a comment or two, set off a fight, and step back as other trolls emerge to sling punches.
He has set off a fight among newspapers in Israel which is unprecedented; never before has someone with virtually unlimited means tried to use a newspaper to make a politician Prime Minister.
(The film also set off a fight between Jalen Rose and Grant Hill about Rose's use of "Uncle Toms" to describe Duke recruits — a controversy related to questions of money and class).
Those rules set off a fight between parents and health advocates on one side, who praised the standards, and the food industry, which argued that some of the proposals went too far.
(The film also set off a fight between Jalen Rose and Grant Hill about Rose's use of "Uncle Toms" to describe Duke recruits a controversy related to questions of money and class).
C1 Battle Over Olympic Coverage The Olympics have set off a fight between those who hold intellectual property rights in sporting events and those seeking to cover sports, especially for news outlets online.
You've now set off a fight for control of Najaf, between those Iraqi Shiite leaders who believe in the separation between mosque and state, and the pro-Iranian clerics who want to run Iraq Khomeini-style.
