Sentence examples for they were set off from inspiring English sources

They were set off when he rammed his motorcycle into the patrol vehicles, Sharifi said.

"They were set off by cars stuffed with explosives that were driven into the targeted compounds," he said.

Known as the "Caracazo," or the "Caracas clash," they were set off by low oil prices, cuts in subsidies and a population that was suddenly impoverished.

At least two of the cars used were taxis whose bombs were detonated when police officers were nearby, suggesting that they were set off remotely by people who were keeping watch.

Once again the Pakistani government is scrambling to keep up with the advancing floodwaters a month after they were set off by torrential monsoon rains in the northern mountains.

They were set off by changes to the social security system approved by the Ortega administration this week, but they also tapped growing discontent with the government, protesters and analysts said.

"It was like they were setting off a Fourth of July fireworks display," one pilot said.

Bars in the more liberal downtown were silent and stunned; out in rural areas they were setting off fireworks.

"We think they were setting off firecrackers inside a rotten column," Barbara Burn Dolensek, a trustee of the museum, said recently.

On October 20th Mr Jones and Ms Evans announced that they were setting off on a 40-day tour to other cities, including in America, where offshoot assemblies are coming together.

Her aunt, Magdalena Strickland, a 49-year-old nurse, called at about 6 15 to say they were setting off in a car and a truck, but they never arrived, Ms. Moore said.