But what if the stock market turmoil sets off another deterioration in the wider global economy?
Gilles Assouline loves to joke about being searched by airport security when his solid gold credit card sets off alarms.
When that doesn't work, he poses as a substitute teacher and sets off the fire alarm when trouble approaches.
But that rasping tension is soon smoothed away, as the plot sets off on its daft and hackneyed course.
Just the kind of big game on national TV that sets off buzz and gets an agent licking his chops.
This sets off a death spiral of falling GDP, rising unemployment, and rising interest rates, which eventually leads to default.
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When the Volvo senses that its driver is about to nod off, it sets off a gong and some dashboard lights.
Every time a franchise moves it sets off a destructive ripple effect.
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When security and stability messages are buried, it sets off alarm bells.
In search of a definition of "home, " the writer sets off on a bicycle tour of the Mexican desert, Japan and Vietnam.
Armed with new evidence of the trade within the Czech Republic, Heather sets off to Brussels in search of an EU ban.
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And yet, in a world where any PR is deemed to be good PR, can Target lose when scarcity sets off a firestorm?
"We have seen the bull breed type becoming increasingly popular as a status breed, which sets off the owner's image, " said Ms Jenkins.
An employee using her special access to medical records to grab information to sell to a tabloid sets off even my privacy siren.
Not to be daunted, and plainly unfazed by the threat of both sharks and sentimentality, Marlin sets off to rescue his only child.
If a passenger sets off the metal detector, engages in suspicious behavior, or is listed on a watch list, secondary screening would be appropriate.
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.
Tokyo's Nikkei average ended the morning down 2.19 percent at 8, 377.75, a three-week low, though it is recovering slightly as the afternoon sets off.
It's slightly better, down 1.84 percent, as the afternoon sets off.
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.
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.
This sets off a huge wake-up call regarding workplace stress.
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When gluten hits the gut in someone with celiac disease, it sets off an immune reaction which kills off the cells forming the inner lining of the small intestine.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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