"spark" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long arms and trade embargo against South Africa.
- The system of apartheid sparked significant internal resistance.
- Women were permitted to divorce their husbands and many did, sparking resistance from rural males especially.
- The project, which sparked fierce resistance from some local residents, could grow to 3.5 million square feet.
- Efforts to impose cuts to meet lenders' demands for austerity have sparked fierce resistance.
- Even so, the census and the regressive taxation it facilitated sparked popular riots and resistance in the western districts.
- The move sparked greater Catholic resistance and thousands of priests, nuns and lay people acted to assist French Jews.
- The idea of creating the majority minority districts in these instances caused a furor and sparked resistance throughout the country.
- It could spark fierce resistance and terrorism from Chechnya's independent-minded people and, conceivably, bog Russia down in another Afghanistan.
- The uprising sparks widespread resistance to Borgia, and after his fall, Andrea and Camilla are married.
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