Sentence examples for setting off years from inspiring English sources

But senior officials rejected the plan, setting off years of meetings and redesigns, according to an official in the Ministry of Culture who asked to remain anonymous because of the issue's delicacy.

It is in Ceiba, not on the island of Vieques, where Navy bombing exercises set off years of conflict.

Consider Howard Hughes or the outsider artist Henry Darger, whose trove of writings and paintings, discovered posthumously in Chicago in 1973, set off years of speculation regarding his psychological history, which hasn't abated.

And I think the shooting of Mike Brown was the spark that apparently set off years of frustration and years of racial divide and it just came to a head sort of like a perfect storm.

Worse, the debts incurred contributed to the enervation of the French government and success of the French Revolution, which overthrew the monarchy, wiped out the aristocracy, triggered successively more tyrannical regimes, enabled Napoleon's dictatorial rise, and set off years of murderous conflict.

In 1990, shotguns and M-16s were adopted into Enga warfare, setting off some 15 years of devastation as youths (~17 to 28) took charge of interclan warfare.

In 1981, after a protracted political crisis, a leftist guerrilla army attacked El Salvador's military, setting off eleven years of fighting, in which seventy-five thousand people were killed.

In 2001 Sheriff Arpaio went to court seeking to have the decree lifted, setting off seven years of litigation that culminated in Judge Wake's ruling.