IN FRANCE, questions of language often touch off fiery national debates.
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Mass killings often touch off anguished discussions about what constitutes terrorism.
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Chambers's revelations helped touch off McCarthy's crusade against suspected Communists in government.
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Instead, every major milestone has the potential to touch off a new aftershock.
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At 2,673, the index closed just a touch off its record high set weeks earlier.
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Many fear his death will touch off a period of instability in the Palestinian territories.
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Is it really so important that its demise would touch off a global arms race?
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Critics' fears that they would touch off widespread cash hoarding did not materialize in Europe.
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He kept in touch off and on with Cleveland Matt Shupe and his wife over the years.
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Mexican credit default swaps (CDS) traded flat at 174 bps, a touch off recent three-month highs.
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This could touch off another round of flooding in the fourth most-populous U.S. city, it added.
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That will touch off annual required distributions for the most affluent, continuing into the 2030s and beyond.
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Worries that proposed tariffs by the Trump administration could touch off a trade war have eased somewhat.
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In March, Romney said Trump would be dangerous as president, with policies that could touch off a recession.
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Yes, the dossier did not itself touch off the F.B.I. investigation, as Trump and his allies sometimes claim.
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Reporters rush out to relay the news to an anxious world and touch off celebrations throughout the country.
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But if rates rise significantly, that will likely touch off a selloff in stocks during the summer, Gundlach said.
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Like the mink-lined Crocs, the collection feels more luxurious than that first show, but still a touch off.
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His mission is to snap at our nerves and to touch off small, ironic echoes all over the map.
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The move is expected to touch off a legal battle that could alter the course of U.S. land conservation.
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The complete, unabashed reversal is bound to touch off a series of court challenges from tech giants and consumer advocates.
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Would it touch off street protests in Palestinian cities or a backlash among Arab allies like Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
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The decision came as an unwelcome surprise to Israelis, but was not likely to touch off any immediate diplomatic crisis.
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At the same time, we did not anticipate that our reporting would touch off a strong response from the Chinese government.
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Apple may well have some highly logical, institutional, user-behavior-driven or design-focused reasons for leaving touch off the Mac.
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"Both of those things together, when they line up just right, can touch off one of these very strong storms," she says.
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The assassin was sent by Littlefinger, who hoped to touch off war and use the resulting chaos to better his political position.
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But high demand for Sovaldi, at a cost of $1,000 a pill, helped touch off the current furor over U.S. drug pricing.
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Still, if Iran refuses to allow inspections of sites identified by the stolen archive, it could well touch off an inspection crisis.
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Mr. Trump in some ways would touch off some of the same concerns, given his history with women and marriage and honesty.
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"China is not intimidated by U.S. carriers and is brave enough to touch off an inadvertent confrontation," Yue wrote on his Weibo account.
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But a currency intervention could spark pushback from other countries, jeopardize the dollars status as the worlds reserve currency and touch off market turmoil.
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But a currency intervention could spark pushback from other countries, jeopardize the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency and touch off market turmoil.
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That will most likely touch off a barrage of lawsuits from Democratic-governed states and environmental activists who have vowed to fight the rollbacks.
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The appointment of a successor to Mr. Comey could touch off a furious fight since anyone Mr. Trump would choose would automatically come under suspicion.
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Still, Trump continues to make light of a situation that is more likely than any other to touch off a new round of escalating tensions.
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The king warned that a precipitous move would touch off a possibly violent backlash among Arabs, all but quashing hopes of bringing the two sides together.
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But the inevitable, entropic pull back into old patterns of thinking and feeling we spend a lifetime trying to undo can touch off anxiety and despair.
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There are some tangible benefits to updating NAFTA now, and especially avoiding the steel and tariff increases that could touch off an even broader trade conflict.
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She hosted him when he visited New England and translated a book of his, and they stayed in touch, off and on, until his death in 22003.
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At 0600 GMT the rand was 0.27% firmer at 14.7850 per dollar but a touch off the 14.770 seen on Monday, its strongest level in three days.
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Based in New York, AccelFoods plans to continue investing in startups that tap into, or in some cases touch off, new consumer snacking, grocery and health trends.
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At 1500 GMT the rand was 0.51% firmer at 14.7500 per dollar, a touch off its session best of 14.7140, after kicking off the session at 14.8200.
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And the hits are likely to keep coming, with Klobuchar returning to Iowa on Friday to touch off her third bus tour across the first caucus state.
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But critics, including virtually the entire auto industry, as well as several foreign leaders, have warned that such a move could touch off a much wider trade war.
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The Federal Reserve Act says a president can remove a Fed chair only "for cause," and any move to oust him would likely touch off a legal fight.
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Investors fear that derailed trade talks between Washington and Beijing will touch off a global slowdown, analysts said, offsetting recent encouraging data on China, Europe and the United States.
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But an outbreak of defaults could contribute to a rapid contraction in lending to firms and a tightening of credit—sufficient, perhaps, to touch off a new American recession.
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The Commission has threatened not to extend beyond this year recognition of Swiss stock exchange rules that allow cross-border trading, which could touch off tit-for-tat escalation.
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What to watch: Iran is now betting that the Trump administration "is too risk-averse to resort to military action and potentially touch off a regional conflagration," Slavin writes.
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It would also strain highly indebted Chinese firms, so saddled with debt that any rise in the cost of dollar-denominated loans could touch off a nasty deleveraging cycle.
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A federal judge's recent approval of AT&T's $85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner removed some of the regulatory uncertainty around blockbuster mergers, and could touch off more deals.
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And warmer weather means more lightning, which can touch off a blaze: Recent studies indicate a 1-degree increase in temperature can lead to 12 percent more lighting, Flannigan said.
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While it was still criticized by many of Sanders's critics as being "regressive," these criticisms did not touch off the same amount of vitriol among Warren's supporters, at least online.
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From a distance, the rows of mirrors create the illusion that DeSiano cut out pieces of nearby earth and sky and re-glued them, a touch off, to the landscape.
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Djokovic clawed back to 3-3 but cracked after an unlucky touch off the tape put Nadal 6-4 up and the Spaniard wrapped up the set in 71 minutes.
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But a week ago, Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, lowered expectations of an imminent announcement about an embassy move that would anger the Arab world and possibly touch off violence.
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The effort has the potential to touch off a First Amendment debate with a press corps that already has high degrees of distrust of and disfunction with the Trump administration.
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"These next 48 hours are going to be pretty critical for us in terms of containing the fire," Egan said, adding that lightning strikes could touch off new hot spots.
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And when profits did rise to 6.5 percent of GDP in 2006, that didn't touch off an investment boom — it was the calm before the storm of the Great Recession.
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But while the U.S. Midwest and East Coast thawed out, a fierce winter storm headed towards California, carrying heavy rains and high winds that could touch off city flooding and mudslides.
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The new rules, which could be issued as soon as Friday, fulfill a campaign promise by President Trump and are sure to touch off a round of lawsuits on the issue.
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And the fad of anthological TV miniseries — shows where every season presents a new story from some of the same creative team, whose popularity True Detective helped touch off — has waned.
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There was a time when teens having sex on television could touch off minor scandals, because the very notion of teenagers having sexual impulses was considered inappropriate for TV to address.
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Even the smallest perturbation to a complex system (like the weather, the economy or just about anything else) can touch off a concatenation of events that leads to a dramatically divergent future.
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While the damage to Samsung's brand, if not its earnings, remains hard to quantify, negative publicity from the botched recall could touch off a turf war among Android smartphone manufacturers, analysts said.
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With his assault on the legitimacy of the presidential election, Donald J. Trump threatens to touch off a humiliating spectacle unseen in the United States since the country became a global power.
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The leaders of several countries with close ties, including military alliances, with the United States had warned that the restrictions could touch off a trade war and undercut a global economic recovery.
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The company did not explain what specifically necessitated creating a cryptocurrency, but the announcement did touch off a rare wave of excitement about the company, sending its stock rocketing up 45 percent.
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The dollar meanwhile rose slightly off one-week lows against a basket of currencies and stayed a touch off November 2016 lows plumbed versus the yen immediately after Trump's trade threats last week.
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It called the vulnerability "wormable," meaning a single exploit could touch off a chain reaction that allows attacks to spread from vulnerable machine to vulnerable machine without requiring any interaction from admins or users.
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President Donald Trump's nomination of libertarian economist Mark Calabria to be the country's top housing regulator will touch off a bruising battle in Congress over the government's role in the financing of American mortgages.
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As written, it could touch off a new wave of exploitation by the same for-profit colleges that have already wasted billions of taxpayer dollars and left some vulnerable students with mountains of debt.
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Though the potentially record-shatteringly low temperatures descending on a large swath of the country may touch off a political debate over global warming, Chenard said, the phenomenon is not related to climate change.
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What's next: After recent incidents in the Persian Gulf, the Iranians appear to have calculated that the Trump administration is too risk-averse to resort to military action and potentially touch off a regional conflagration.
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Djokovic, a four-times champion in Rome, was helped by a fortunate touch off the net cord that gave him two break points, and he converted for 5-4 before holding serve to draw level.
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But then, three months later — after talking for weeks about firing Comey, with several aides warning of the dire dominoes that the move could touch off — Trump does it anyway, taking many top aides by surprise.
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Bob Corker of Tennessee, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday announced his retirement in "another blow to the Republican establishment" that will likely touch off "a highly contested, ideologically driven primary," per the WashPost.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - A row over a stalled partnership treaty between Switzerland and the European Union is about to touch off a battle over share trading rules that could cause market ructions across Europe from July 1.
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Here are the key ways I see tax reform affecting health care: How are these tax reforms managing to touch off the tinderbox of massive insurance reform, even when bureaucrats proved unable to undo the ACA?
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Iran is not about auto parts and electronics supply chains, and getting it wrong could easily touch off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East, as Saudi Arabia openly threatens to match whatever Iran does.
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Wilders' real goal in the Netherlands is to touch off a "patriotic spring" across Europe where, in short order, voters in France and Germany will also be heading into some quite contentious national elections of their own.
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Meanwhile, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said U.S. interest rates can remain low throughout at least 2017, with no clear sense yet of whether the new Trumpadministration's policies will touch off higher inflation or growth.
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Meanwhile, St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said U.S. interest rates can remain low throughout at least 2844.45, with no clear sense yet of whether the new Trumpadministration's policies will touch off higher inflation or growth.
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Venezuela, a country that has endured nearly three continuous years of economic and social crises, is all but certain to touch off a new round of instability — one that is not altogether unfamiliar territory for emerging markets.
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We would have to imagine that the disclosure of such a scheme would touch off outrage, congressional hearings, wall-to-wall coverage on MSNBC and CNN, perhaps even special counsel investigations or the sanctioning of elected officials.
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There was still plenty of work to do but Ali took a touch off each foot to tee up the ball before angling it past Shuichi Gonda into the corner of the net with a bicycle kick.
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Obama said Trump's border wall proposal could have "enormous" economic consequences for Mexico, which receives billions of dollars in payments that immigrants in the U.S. send home, and possibly touch off a major spat with an ally.
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The case connected to the apartment complex helped touch off protests in 2017 seeking the resignation of Interior Minister Robert Kalinak over business dealings with property developer Ladislav Basternak, who has been investigated over possible tax fraud.
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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean riot police used water cannon on Wednesday to scatter 20 activists protesting at the introduction of "bond notes", a new domestic currency they say could touch off uncontrolled money printing and a return to hyperinflation.
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The U.S. Treasury's new threat to Pfizer's plan to buy Allergan in a "tax inversion" could touch off yet another raid on so-called hedge fund hotels – stocks that are unusually popular with the two-and-20 crowd.
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But the new plan to confront China is a sign that Trump may touch off a trade war, with unpredictable consequences — from the disruption of the flow of commerce, to possible retaliation by the world's other economic superpower.
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The hearing will almost certainly touch off an intense debate inside the medical community and focus attention on medical groups like the A.M.A., which have resisted governmental mandates affecting how doctors practice for both ideological and practical reasons.
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" Referring to a July phone call he had with the president of Ukraine that helped touch off the impeachment inquiry, he said Democrats "picked up a phone call that was perfect, but they didn't know it was perfect.
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St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said Thursday U.S. interest rates can remain low throughout at least 2017, with no clear sense yet of whether the new President Donald Trump's policies will touch off higher inflation or growth.
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For another, this may touch off black market demand for pieces of political venues, to a degree that leads our nation of savvy grassroots businesspeople to literally dismantle our government bit by bit for sale to a secondary market.
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The international community fears the offensive on Hodeidah port will aggravate the humanitarian crisis in Yemen and touch off a famine affecting up to 8.4 million people believed by U.N. officials to be now on the verge of starvation.
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The Run-Up When we invited the columnist Thomas Friedman onto The Run-Up to discuss the latest tempest surrounding Donald J. Trump, we had no idea that his column would touch off a dust-up of its own.
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Anger could touch off a backlash, advisers said, though at the same time he needs to show more indignation than he did during a Fox News interview on Monday when he stuck closely to talking points and looked rehearsed.
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Most congressional Republicans fundamentally disagree with that approach, which they consider a backdoor tax that could easily touch off a calamitous trade war, hurt their local businesses and overwhelm any gains from their hard-won, Republican-only tax bill.
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I know that invoking that term is going to touch off a wave of groans from people who, every election cycle, read countless pieces of glorified politics fanfic from pundits predicting brokered conventions that simply do not happen anymore.
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Any effort at cuts, however, would likely touch off lawsuits by Native American tribes like the Navajo, Hopi, Pueblo of Zuni, Ute Mountain and Ute Indians who consider Bears Ears sacred, and now form a commission that administrates the territory.
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A former U.S. official said that while it was unclear whether Guaido's efforts would touch off a broader military uprising against Maduro, it appeared aimed at building momentum toward Wednesday's May Day Street protests and making that a turning point.
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The effect could be to touch off a virtuous cycle of competition, like the one that emerged in the 2008 Democratic primary over issues like health care and climate policy, where aspiring party leaders vie for the mantle of change.
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As worldwide practitioners of the Jewish faith prepare to touch off Passover celebrations this evening, it seems a timely moment to reflect on a history of racial intolerance and persecution that goes back as far as the Book of Exodus.
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But then it just gets wackier once he does get the ball: he has to shoot a fadeaway three, as he's falling out of bounds and—AND—he gets an every so slight touch off the corner of the glass before sinking it.
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The lens flare, the ghosting effects, the garish and inaccurate color; all these will touch off nearly as much nostalgia, or anti-nostalgia, for the 1980s home-video hobbyist as the disco tunes might for any late boomer or early Gen X-er.
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Gore (in which Scalia joined the Court's conservatives in trampling a heap of judicial norms) or if they now support candidates who would touch off multiple crises on inauguration day by voiding international agreements out of pure partisan spite (another horror show of institutional decadence).
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In an email exchange, obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Farrow, whose reporting on accusations of sexual assault against Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men helped touch off the #MeToo movement, harshly criticized Hachette, calling its decision to publish Mr. Allen's memoir a betrayal.
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If the E.P.A. does open the door to a new, weaker set of rules that utilities and others favor, it will most likely touch off a legal battle with environmental groups and pose a bureaucratic challenge to an agency where critical senior positions remain vacant.
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For President Trump, it is a plan that builds on his decision to move the United States Embassy to Jerusalem — a huge political success among his conservative Jewish donors and evangelicals that, contrary to predictions, did not touch off a violent reaction in the region.
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At 21.68 GMT the rand was 0.88% firmer at 14.7000 per dollar, a touch off its session-best of 14.6550 reached just as New York trading got underway, with sentiment on the side of emerging currencies following the tariff deal between Washington and Mexico.
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Ironically, the same technological advances that could one day render the need for replacements like January obsolete—specifically, sensors and software than can accurately call balls and strikes—could also touch off a ferocious new fight between baseball and the men who officiate it.
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The proposal comes on the heels of a bruising battle with Congress over wall funding that resulted in a five-week partial federal government shutdown that ended in January, and could touch off a sequel just ahead of a trifecta of ominous fiscal deadlines looming this fall.
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The latest example emerged this week from staff economist Robert Tetlow, who argued that uncertainty about the stability of inflation expectations should be met with a strong response to ensure that one round of price increases does not touch off further rounds as inflationary psychology takes hold.
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A woman in a Walmart in Texas last week who took photos of a man pushing a shopping cart with his daughter's hair wrapped around its handle helped touch off a debate about when, or if, a bystander should intervene when a parent harshly disciplines a child in public.
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The draft subpoena circulated by Mr. Cummings suggests he is casting a wide net for potential records related to the Ukraine matter, and is all but certain to touch off a battle with a White House that has a long history of refusing to comply with congressional requests.
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THERE was always a risk that the Fed's first rate hike would touch off global financial instability, that it would squeeze China and push up the dollar, that commodity prices would fall and that the expected rise in American inflation would fail to materialise on the schedule the Fed anticipated.
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From the 22010 police raid at the Stonewall Inn in New York City that set off riots and helped touch off the modern gay-rights movement to the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard to near-epidemic levels of violence against transgender women, the community has been marked by flashes of trauma.
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Financial crises tend to arrive every decade or so, and Italy is near the top of a list of flash points that could touch off the next one, alongside Turkey's economic and political turmoil, President Trump's trade war, Britain's exit from the European Union and a broad slowdown in global growth.
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A judge's approval on Tuesday of the $221 billion AT&T-Time Warner deal is sure to touch off a series of mergers as once-powerful news and entertainment companies, built for an era when cable was king, position themselves to compete against the likes of Netflix, Amazon and YouTube.
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NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump accused Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday of doing a "bad job" and "out to prove how tough he is," but any move to oust him would likely touch off a legal fight with big repercussions in financial markets as well.
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Sterling fell more than 1 percent intraday, back towards 30-year lows touched last week following the Brexit vote, after the Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said further stimulus measures may soon be needed for the U.K. given the country's vote to leave the EU. Pound sterling was last near $1.33, a touch off session lows.
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With those megaleaks from his tiny group, Assange successfully upended parts of the global order, hastening the US pullout from Iraq and helping to touch off the Arab Spring with its revelations about the Tunisian dictator Ben Ali—even as WikiLeaks was accused of also endangering innocents like State Department sources whose names were included in the files.
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