Sentence examples for strikes set off from inspiring English sources

A series of lightning strikes set off the 1977 blackout.

In June 1988 when lightning strikes set off the first fires, Robert Barbee, the Yellowstone park superintendent, was not worried about the fires; to him, it looked like the normal beginning of another fire season.

By 2008, many of the young organizers had retreated to their computer keyboards and turned into bloggers, attempting to raise support for a wave of isolated labor strikes set off by government privatizations and runaway inflation.

The military strike set off tremors of anti-American anger; Pakistani officials, buffeted by domestic criticism, have promised to use force against any future American incursions.

Rioting brought this city, the country's commercial capital, to a standstill today after talks failed to avert a strike set off by a 50percentt increase in fuel prices.

Victor Homola (NYT) TURKEY: 17 DIE IN PRISON ASSAULT Soldiers stormed 20 prisons to force an end to a mass hunger strike, setting off clashes that killed 2 soldiers.

The protesters have been accused of wanting to engineer "their own Marikana," a reference to the massacre at the Lonmin platinum mine, in 2012, in which police killed thirty-four miners who were participating in a strike, setting off a rash of national demonstrations and walkouts.

Then again, nobody was, which was why everyone went out on strike, setting off a chain of events which allowed those running the new cash-rich Colombian league to cherry pick the world's talent and to hell with existing Fifa legislation.

Across the region hit by the disaster, people bowed their heads in silence at 2 46 pm, the moment a magnitude-9 earthquake – the biggest in Japan's recorded history – struck, setting off a tsunami that would leave about 20,000 people dead or missing, and trigger the world's worst nuclear accident for 25 years.

A Houthi leader said the air strikes would set off a "wide war" in the region.

The two previous strikes were set off by a dispute over job security and involved the same three bus companies.