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It began with peaceful protests against Assad that were met with force, sparking armed opposition and eventually civil war pitting Assad's minority Alawite sect against the Sunni Muslim majority.
The renegade general Laurent Nkunda whose forces sparked an international crisis late last year in Eastern Congo was last night facing extradition to Congo and a possible war crimes trial.
This did not last, though, as the Brazilian government's attempt to rebuild its own naval forces sparked another naval arms race, involving all three countries' orders for revolutionary new "dreadnoughts", powerful warships whose capabilities far outstripped older vessels in the world's navies.
The shooting is being investigated by a group of 15 officers from neighbouring police forces, sparking criticisms of a lack of impartiality.
During their five-year reign, ended by U.S.-backed Afghan forces, sparking the present NATO-led war, the Taliban banned women from voting, most work and from leaving their homes unless accompanied by their husband or a male relative, though those rights have been painstakingly regained.
Furthermore, it called for more racial diversity among police forces, as mistrust of primarily white forces had sparked violence in many areas.
Indeed, throughout history, whenever different cultures encountered each other, either by chance or by force, sparks were triggered and civilization was often prompted to new brilliance.
Inertia results in additional rise beyond the neutral buoyancy height, but the plume rapidly decelerates due to the reversal in the direction of the buoyancy force (Sparks 1986).
