Sentence examples for were touched off from inspiring English sources

At Queensborough Community College, demonstrations were touched off by the University's failure to reappoint three professors.

The protests were touched off after a pro-Massoud convoy of about 50 people hit a car, General Amin said.

The riots were touched off by the April 18 death of a Berber teenager in a Kabylia police station.

The latest investigations were touched off in January by allegations that Mr. Chartier had obtained a loan for a friend, the actress Peggy Lipton, from an executive at Markstone Capital, another firm that manages pension fund money.

Those riots were touched off by Japan's bid to join the United Nations Security Council and by new Japanese textbooks that minimize Japan's 20th-century history of atrocities against the Chinese and the Koreans.

Part of the evangelicals' new excitement is rooted in a communal belief that the big Christian revivals of the 19th century, known as the second and third Great Awakenings, were touched off by economic panics.

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 violence had been touched off by reports that a Christian had desecrated the Qurʾan.

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.