Sentence examples for touching off from inspiring English sources

Competition is touching off fierce debates.

They lost to Boston in Game 7, touching off a downtown riot.

Are they doing too much to speed up economic growth and touching off inflation?

Eventually, supply tightens enough to raise rents and prices, touching off another boom.

Minutes later, Katlego Mphela hit the left post, touching off groans.

German politicians are historically afraid of touching off inflation with too much deficit spending.

He collided with McMurray early in the race, touching off a six-car accident.

Until, in 1970, Penn Central, the country's sixth-biggest company, collapsed, touching off a tempest.

He praised Hideki Matsui, who drove home six runs on Wednesday, touching off celebrations in Japan.

Even one surviving Jewish family would constitute "a source of bacilli touching off new infection".

Expectations of future price increases converged around central-bank targets, touching off an era of long expansions and mild recessions.