The phrase "argument ignited" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where a discussion or debate has become heated or intense.
Example: "The discussion started off calmly, but as differing opinions emerged, the argument ignited, leading to a passionate exchange of ideas."
Alternatives: "debate sparked" or "dispute flared up".
As we head into the general election, voters will increasingly be at odds, drawn into public arguments ignited by the candidates they support.
Mr. Kerry's friends concede the first rounds have gone to the president -- "it's frustrating as hell," Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware said on Wednesday -- but Mr. Bush has his own problems, since the argument re-ignites the question of whether he rushed to war without a plan about what to do next.
"I like books that make bold arguments and ignite conversations.
More recently, his "Twenty Hydrogen Myths," published last summer on the institute's Web site (www.rmi.org), ignited arguments about whether Mr. Lovins had misleadingly played down or ignored hurdles to moving from an economy based on oil to reliance on clean-burning hydrogen, which still must be produced from some basic energy source.
He has no reservations about expressing his opinions to his teammates about their play, and it was his critique of a blown defensive assignment by Thornton that ignited their argument.
The prospect that the F.C.C. might allow a "fast lane" for some traffic, leaving everyone else in a slower lane, has ignited the argument that private inequality must have its limits, and that some public spaces must remain open to all.
Since a more latitudinarian copyright regime is a cause célèbre for a certain class of Internetista, his argument ignited a storm of criticism, and the comments appended to the online version of the article ran into the hundreds of thousands.
Galloway's comments and Assange's alleged sex crimes have "ignited bitter arguments in Britain over perceptions of rape," according to Reuters.
LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Julian Assange's desperate attempt to avoid being sent from London to Stockholm to face questioning over alleged sex crimes has ignited bitter arguments in Britain over perceptions of rape.
The second argument is that igniting economic growth and sustaining it are somewhat different enterprises.
