We are talking about sparks that could ignite something that, for the moment, is cold.

The fire shot out sparks.

The fire threw off sparks.

Sparks were coming out of the chimney.

So how does electricity ignite residential fires?

There are sparks flying out of the electric socket.

Sparks rained on the street from the burning house.

The magazine has managed to ignite a new debate about freedom of speech.

Moreover, bombs and grenades not only ignite buildings, but also grass, bushes, and trees.

As often as they ignite the fires of war they are extinguished by God.

What happens if an apparently minor system such as social media sparks a major geopolitical crisis?

Should instability ignite into open warfare, Russia will find it impossible to avoid the consequences.

Activists are using the hashtag АбортусСтигма (Abortion Stigma) to ignite public debate via the social networks.

Communications and mass media have long enabled copycat effects protests in one place ignite similar actions elsewhere.

Power at the wrong time, in the hands of the wrong people can ignite waves of rage.

Like those big explosions, sparks, are from a little comb jelly, and there's krill and other kinds of crustaceans, and jellyfish.

On June 15 Franklin may possibly have conducted his well known kite experiment in Philadelphia, successfully extracting sparks from a cloud.

This is the accomplishment of the traditional media which has done nothing but spread misinformation, ignite hatred and instill bias.

Writing the oldest book in the world was Job, and he said, Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.

Nowadays, June 28 still sparks controversies in the society, with protests and controversial declarations re occurring every year around the sensitive historical dates.

It was she who little by little kindled in my heart the first sparks of a feeling which later became my ruling passion.

Alexandar Vucic said he did not want to allow a scenario in which any major military clashes could ignite in the state.

Here's an example A company I'm engaged with has found a specific piece of the H spike of flu that sparks the immune system.

But, if the Annapolis meeting is to re ignite a successful peace process, EU governments must first develop a common position on this issue.

Out of the welter of dust, noise, welders sparks, flotillas of cement mixers and construction cranes, the setting for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games is taking shape.

While Grillo s supporters may ignite fireworks in protest of these gilded giveaways for a few months, a consistent assault leading to genuine reform seems doubtful.

A crucial bone of contention that might ignite a new war is the future of the country s oil industry and the North South border demarcation.

The Lebanese front may ignite if Hezbollah seeks to avenge Mughniyah s death, or simply as a result of a knee jerk reaction to a provocation, as in 2006.

The company, which has lost 57 percent of its market value this year, is grappling with tumbling commodity prices as China's economic slowdown weighs on demand and sparks havoc across markets.

By contrast, the emerging market countries, after a short slide, have managed to re ignite their growth engines and are sailing full speed ahead, racking up impressive growth rates.

Moreover, bombs and grenades not only ignite buildings, but also grass, bushes, and trees. The number of forest and brush fires that start is thus much higher than during a normal summer.

Public works projects have likely boosted employment in many regional and rural areas as cheap money floods Japan, a result of the central government's efforts to double Japan's monetary base and ignite inflation.

MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS Imagine that the arguments triggered by the Hindenberg disaster were about the fire extinguishers and parachutes that airships should carry, rather than about the design flaws that might cause them to ignite.

These early reformers, among them Muhammad Abduh and Jamaleddin al Afghani, did not ignite the mass mobilization they hoped for, and were not able to redress social ills through better implementation of religious prescriptions.

In the US, Obama s re election has led some to believe that much needed policy reforms will bring the country back from the brink of the fiscal cliff and ignite a new era of growth.

'What hope can you have?' said Betsy, offended on her friend's behalf 'entendons nous!' But in her eyes little sparks twinkled which said that she understood very well, and just as he did, what hope he might have.

It would ignite an already incendiary part of the world, with the added risk of global economic collapse if the Strait of Hormuz, through which one fifth to one third of the world s oil passes, is blocked.

Moreover, fuses lit in the colonial era could re ignite, as they have done, to everyone's surprise, between Ethiopia and Eritrea, where war broke out over a colonial border that Italy's occupiers had failed to define with precision.

And then another pair of legs we collaborated on were these look like jellyfish legs, And the only purpose that these legs can serve, outside the context of the film, is to provoke the senses and ignite the imagination.

But it may also explain why one self immolation in Tunisia helped to kindle the Arab Spring, whereas some three dozen self immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns have failed to ignite a similar popular movement against the Chinese state.

The Japanese government, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, is making the promotion of women's empowerment (女性活躍推進, joseikatsuyakusuishin) and womenomics a priority to not only increase tax revenues, but also to spur consumer demand and ignite inflation.

Moreover, fuses lit in the colonial era could re ignite, as they have done, to everyone's surprise, between Ethiopia and Eritrea, where war broke out over a colonial border that Italy's occupiers had failed to define with precision. In Zimbabwe, colonial land ownership patterns that gave most of the viable farmland to white settlers are at least one root of the country's current crisis.