Sentence examples for became a catalyst of from inspiring English sources

Trash became a catalyst of cool, spawning a generation of clubs across the country that took on Trash's glam indie ethic.

James Farmer, the civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality and became a catalyst of the civil rights movement.

A couple of years ago, the unveiling of a four-mile tram line, the Sun Link Streetcar – which runs from the university to the Mercado district, west of downtown – became a catalyst for regeneration of this once-neglected area, with a new wave of bars, restaurants and street food stalls escalating it into a foodie destination.

HOHHOT, Inner Mongolia — Chinese authorities publicly acknowledged for the first time on Sunday the depth of anger among ethnic Mongolians over the hit-and-run killing of a herder by a Han Chinese truck driver nearly three weeks ago, which became a catalyst for days of street protests and led to fears among officials here of an outbreak in anti-Han violence.

His essays examining the disturbing consequences of misunderstanding between blacks (then called "Negroes") and whites in regard to the racial injustice of the era became a catalyst for many progressive Americans of all racial groups, prompting them into action and providing a passionate and eloquent voice for the modern civil rights movement.

News that a boy and girl were killed on the roadside on Sunday by a speeding bus spread rapidly on social media they became a catalyst for an outpouring of anger.

Despite lambasting "these monsters, these unsightly wrecks stranded upon the mud flat of Victorian taste", Clark also admired certain neogothic buildings and thus became a catalyst for the re‑evaluation of Victorian architecture.

It's clear the loss of Crackerjack became a catalyst for what would become a multi- generational pattern of emotional neglect.

The tragedy became a catalyst for a broad range of reforms.

It could be a modern version of the 19th-century railroad trusts, which came to symbolize American business run amok and eventually became a catalyst for a sweeping recalculation of the ties between the public and private sectors.

That petition — disseminated by thousands of volunteers and said to have drawn many millions of signatures — became a catalyst for historic change.