Sentence examples for early spark from inspiring English sources

They were major public events, but the early spark was gone.

In that case, an early spark could cause the lower-grade gasoline to explode prematurely, resulting in "knocks" that damage the engine.

From that early spark of inspiration has come the Pavegen tiles, 5cm-thick units which have already been fitted in railway stations, universities, schools and offices to harness the energy from footfall which is then stored in a battery and can be used within a 200-metre radius to power street lights or charge mobile phones, among other uses.

Rangers' only early spark came from several fireworks being let off among their fans.

Dries Mertens, one of two reserves to score in the first victory, instilled some early spark as a starter but petered out.

With second-seeded North Carolina dominating possession in the first half and stifling the Terps' offense, No. 1 seed Maryland needed an early spark in the second half of Sunday night's final at PPL Park.

But other scientists, beyond acknowledging a few early sparks in Africa, remain unswayed.

(Scott) 'THE BROTHERS GRIMM' (PG-13, 118 minutes) Despite a few early sparks of promise, Terry Gilliam's big-screen adventure about the brother folklorists (played by Matt Damon and Heath Ledger) sputters and coughs along like an unoiled machine, grinding gears and nerves in equal measure.

Moreover, many of the small early sparks between the transition team and members of the legislative branch have been hammered out.

Lum cites the deterioration of their own posters, and the grid-like repetition that Montreal's commercial wheat-pasters employ, as early sparks of influence, but confesses the obsession runs deeper, back to a childhood fixation.

Earlier Spark experiments have reported sub-second latency for Grep, word count, and TopKCount applications [12].