Sentence examples for was touching off from inspiring English sources
An analysis of traffic to several major supremacist websites shows that many attracted spikes in interest late last year, around the time that anger over the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., was touching off protests in cities and towns across the nation.
The furor was touched off by a 1998 article in The Lancet, a British medical journal.
The movement was touched off by the theories of ideal government expounded by Prince Shōtoku.
The dispute was touched off by Air India's inaugural flight last week from New Delhi.
By all accounts, the youthful exuberance was touched off not by politics but by ennui.
The fire was touched off by the pyrotechnics display of the band Great White.
Badstuber's scuffed low cross was touched off beautifully towards Podolski, first time by Ozil.
The Guardian reported that the dispute was touched off by an essay in The Telegraph written by Mr. Lewis.
The incident was touched off when a roadside bomb struck a Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment supply convoy.
The violence was touched off, by student anger over a series, of police drug raids on off campus apartments.
The riot was touched off in a dining hall by inmates who had not been fed their evening meal.
