Quartz sparked enthusiasm among English speaking Twitter users, as well.

To give the graffiti its real power, let's remember the spark that lit the Syrian revolt flame.

The defeat of French army at the Battle of Bailén in Spain on 27 July 1808 triggered the war.

I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.

And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.

The bonfire was sparked by the collapse of the Thai baht in the summer of 1997.

A powerful feature of the Egyptian revolution was the equality between the very different actors who initiated it.

The protest energy that briefly electrified Tiananmen Square dissipated out of the cities and spread across the countryside.

Rising energy and commodity prices helped create the global food crisis, which fed the financial crisis.

Eight years ago, electoral fraud during the 2004 presidential vote sparked the protests that came to be known as the Orange Revolution.

Viewers were kept on their toes, with an 18 minute advertising slot before the show, which ignited their anger and sarcasm

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These resignations have sparked outrage from opposition bloggers who believe that the Kremlin is reneging on promises to loosen its grip on central power.

Kyrgyz artist Gulzada Ryskulova has rocked the local music scene with a powerful take on an epic poem that serves as a fundament of the Central Asian country's culture.

To define an interest rate fully, allowing comparisons with other interest rates, both the interest rate and the compounding frequency must be disclosed.

The heat from the explosion set fire to the forest below it, and then the shock wave came down and knocked down trees for hundreds of square miles, okay?

The night of November 17 Black Friday, as it quickly came to be known set Czechoslovakia alight.

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Not surprisingly, the spike in food prices was a contributing factor in the civil unrest that sparked the Arab Spring.

In Tunisia, whose revolution ignited the wildfire of change that quickly spread across the region, young people account for 70 of total unemployment.

The news also rekindled debate about the death penalty in India and whether it was likely to deter or provoke future terrorist attacks.

For once, what has set financial markets ablaze are not their excesses, but those of Wall Street.

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The decision triggered a severe response from China, where students held demonstrations against his visit. Bilateral relations were frozen.

When she became the first woman to be British Prime Minister, she fired the ambitions of countless young women around the world (including mine).

Second, China s central bank still controls interest rates by enforcing a roughly three percentage point spread between deposit rates and lending rates.

The Lahad Datu standoff also sparked a humanitarian crisis after scores of Sabah residents with Filipino ancestry were arrested and more than 1,500 migrant Filipinos sought refuge in the Philippines.

In some countries, notably the United States, these tensions between science and religion have fuelled the current creation evolution controversy, a religious conflict focusing on politics and public education.

This ratio is called the mechanical advantage.

Central banks respond to lowered demand by reducing interest rates and to higher expected inflation by raising interest rates.

High food prices may have served as a trigger in North Africa, but the speed with which the protesters turned their attention to political reform caught everyone off guard.

Putin connects two events that triggered WWII, the Munich Agreement of 1938 and the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, in one causal construction.

The massacre occurred under the watch of the Israeli Defense Force, who at the time had gained control of West Beirut, guarded the entrances to the camps, and lit flares at night to provide visibility to their Lebanese allies.

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