When that doesn't work, he poses as a substitute teacher and sets off the fire alarm when trouble approaches.
An Arkansas tractor salesman (Robert Duvall) discovers that his real mother was a black woman, and sets off for Chicago to find his black half brother (James Earl Jones).
It's 1965, and a major storm is bearing down on New Penzance Island, off the coast of New England, and their disappearance sets off an island-wide search and rescue mission.
The USA lose 2-1 away to Jamaica in World Cup qualifying and the result sets off a number of highly strung journos and bloggers.
They know that parents have to parent, that children can't achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.
Not to be daunted, and plainly unfazed by the threat of both sharks and sentimentality, Marlin sets off to rescue his only child.
Just the kind of big game on national TV that sets off buzz and gets an agent licking his chops.
Governments have tried advertising campaigns to coax their citizens into unplugging cellphone chargers and turning off their TV sets at night, to little effect.
In that 2003 U.S. Open, he was down two sets to love and fought off a match point in a five set semifinal against David Nalbandian.
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And whether or not it sets off a climate shift of Pleistocenic proportions, acidification could kill the researchers' newly-discovered, awe-inspiring reef, along with others we haven't even found yet.
That's the kind of tone this team sets, both on and off the field.
When the Volvo senses that its driver is about to nod off, it sets off a gong and some dashboard lights.
At least half of the damage, however, occurs hours later, as the initial injury sets off a complex and poorly understood chemical cascade that disables surrounding cells.
But it's not just the bounce and speed of the ball off the clay surface that sets it apart from other courts, and makes the French Open an elusive tournament for some players.
Rosetta brings two technologies to bear on sluggish drug development: chips that have been covered with a series of genes using what is essentially a modified inkjet printing process, and powerful computer algorithms that use pattern recognition technology to show how whole sets of genes are being turned on and off.
McNaughton is looking for something else, and spends the whole film not getting there: it sets off violently, tries a few jokes, changes tack to a mooching sadness, and finally settles for an old-style punch-up.
But that rasping tension is soon smoothed away, as the plot sets off on its daft and hackneyed course.
When security and stability messages are buried, it sets off alarm bells.
With an assassin on his tail, he sets off through Florence - and other locations - to crack codes that allude to passages from Italian poet Dante's classic work, Inferno.
In an age when pride is on the wane yet the sense is strengthening that money has fatal flaws as an engine of equality, that experience simply cuts people off from political participation and sets them adrift, inward into their private lives, whether in a lonely or gregarious way (or, by turns, both).
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That which sets me off is the ultimate and inevitable triumph of that which is right and fitting.
In most folktales, when a young man sets off to rescue the princess and become the king, one of the first tests of his mettle involves generosity.
When American writer Mark Halliday (Cummings) begins a relationship with the very married Margot Wendice (Kelly) in London, he unknowingly sets off a chain of blackmail and murder.
Naledge spits with the swagger necessary to pull off his strut, and Double-O sets him up with a radio-friendly beat, an amalgam of swirling synths, deliberately dated 808 drum sounds and any number of sonic ornaments.
Groopman's research showed that during the course of illness, belief and expectation -- two mental states associated with hope -- have an impact on the nervous system which, in turn, sets off a chain reaction that makes improvement and recovery more likely.
The show-home season typically kicks off when the warm weather sets in, and the homes stay open to the public for three or four weeks.
It will get worse before it gets better as the shock of the tragedy wears off and the reality of a brother lost forever sets in.
"You're really focused on the match and really want to finish in two sets, then suddenly the lights go off, " the 23-year-old said.
Particularly at this point in the cycle, replicating the index closes off entire sets of opportunities to investors, inhibits diversification and may magnify risks.
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American Idol sets off with its contestants on a Quest to survive elimination and win first the Golden Ticket to Hollywood and then, of course, the top prize, becoming the Idol.
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