In November, we'll see whether voters will try to set off a similar wave of change in health care.
Set aside for a moment the question of whether denying entry to such people is manifestly unfair, illegal or even unconstitutional, and whether it is likely to set off a chain reaction of retaliatory measures against U.S. citizens living, working or visiting in other countries.
With the investment, Nextdoor has raised more than $100 million in the last 18 months, and that is bound to set off questions about whether venture capitalists are inflating another technology bubble by throwing money at unprofitable start-ups.
This week's episode is all about another facet of comma usage: How do you know whether to set something off in commas?
By Mary Norris April 8, 2015 This week's episode is all about another facet of comma usage: How do you know whether to set something off in commas?
When you write the things you need to accomplish, you stop wasting time on trying to remember what exactly is it that you set off to do and whether you did it.
Images of the police with sniper rifles on top of armored cars or wearing riot gear to watch over protests set off a debate about whether police departments had lost sight of their missions to serve and protect.
It was unclear whether the arrests were linked to tensions set off this month over a Chinese fishing boat that collided with — the Japanese say rammed — two Japanese naval ships near uninhabited islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.
Hagura and his colleagues wanted to know whether Szechuan pepper set off those receptors.
At the end of 1997, when he was the chief influenza epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, he spent a few tense weeks in Hong Kong, searching for clues to how the virus was transmitted from chickens to humans and whether it would set off a global pandemic.
Whether the independence referendum will actually happen, or whether it may set off another war, remain serious concerns.
