Sentence examples for setting off a series from inspiring English sources

A group of the Arabs wandered into a minefield, setting off a series of explosions.

He was overthrown in 1966, setting off a series of coups.

Harvard also lost this modest, tender, ebullient man who first arrived to teach in 1979, setting off a series of academic appointments that officially ended in 2006.

It began as a currency crisis when Bangkok unpegged the Thai baht from the U.S. dollar, setting off a series of currency devaluations and massive flights of capital.

For this sequence, they created the impressively booming footsteps of the approaching rancor and gorog beasts by setting off a series of mini-explosives.

Eventually they had a son, setting off a series of legal battles as Ms. Bond repeatedly petitioned the church for child support.

But his policy of reviving the economy while "simultaneously" strengthening the nation's nuclear weapons programs has already set off a series of economically damaging United Nations sanctions.

The scandal has set off a series of changes.

Abroad, the ban set off a series of diplomatic crises.

And the failure to approve a plan would set off a series of automatic cuts.

His arrest set off a series of police raids the following day in Belgium and Switzerland.