Sentence examples for setting off a run from inspiring English sources

How, for instance, does the government seize one or more of the banks without setting off a run on others?

Some of the government's conflicting signals may have been intentional, political analysts say, as Mr. Rajoy's government tried to avoid setting off a run on bank deposits and a mass flight of capital out of the country.

In the same year a money-market fund run by the Reserve group was forced to "break the buck" (impose losses on investors), setting off a run that prompted the Fed to provide a backstop yet again.All this has made regulators nervous.

Any kind of loss by a fund can set off a run.

He said there were fears that "draconian" regulatory action could set off a run on banks and even a depression.

Anticipating that the court's edict could set off a run on banks, the central bank tonight declared a bank and currency exchange holiday for Monday and Tuesday.

Anticipating that the decision could set off a run on banks and on the peso, Argentine authorities declared a bank and currency exchange holiday on Monday and Tuesday.

I blame the creators of "Mary Poppins," for that idiotic scene in which the boy sets off a run on a bank because he wants to feed pigeons outside St . Pauls Cathedral with a bag lady.

But just four years ago, on Sept. 16, 2008, shortly after Lehman Brothers collapsed, the Reserve Fund, the nation's oldest money market fund, "broke the buck" and set off a run on the global money fund industry.

The central bank's futile attempt to defend the koruna in May caused interest rates to sky-rocket and the interbank money market to dry up, and set off a run on deposits.

TUESDAY'S PUZZLE — Everybody stand well to the side, please; Alex Boisvert, architect of the new puzzle pointer Crossword Butler, has set off a run of vowels in today's puzzle, and I would hate to see any of you get trampled.