The news touched off a drop of nearly 14 percent in the company's stock.

The only question is, why'd they touch that one off?

The action is certain to touch off a legal battle.

In fact, any such effort is likely to touch off a big political storm.

What the first attack hadn't done to touch off a national panic, the second did.

I would then have no further chance to influence the series of events that we touched off.

Even a season of bad crops could touch it off.

The very idea of journalism touched off something in him.

"If we started shooting at each other here, it could even touch off a war back home."

And actually going through one may touch off another fit.

I don't know what movement of his, if any, triggered off that reaction in me.

Or he had not been until this moment; now something seemed to have triggered him off.

They will be less likely to trigger off more spots.

He triggered off a second shot as all three men turned toward the sound of his gun.

I wanted to call my son back, tell him to leave Andrew alone, but that would have triggered off too many questions.

"What in the name of space science triggered it off?"

Triggered off by the sight of the carriers, the situation?

But two of them triggered off their C-802s just in time.

For, in a manner still not understood, the little man did trigger it off.

Simply walking down the street can trigger off ideas about society.