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.