I ask him if his film was supposed to have political ramifications, given that it has sparked internal debate in France over the state of the nation's prisons.
But it is a gift he has yet to give that has sparked the most intense discussion in the Capitol: a pledge of as much as $150 million, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions — but only if some version of Mr. Paterson's plan is approved.
Nor would I mind being able to launch a note into a new post, giving that person the credit for sparking a new idea for me.
He started by opening cotton bales, which involved striking an ax onto a metal tie around the bales — a dangerous job, given that a spark from metal striking metal could ignite a room full of cotton.
Given that the spark for the protests was an increase in fuel prices, and any merger would certainly result in higher costs for customers and raise the prospect of job losses, consolidation has become politically unfeasible.
Given that the Spark implementation (unsurprisingly) outperforms the Hadoop implementation, we then focus on the Spark implementation.
Given that the inequality which sparked the march still exists, it is not surprising differences in interpretation continue.
And given that these uprisings were sparked by not only widespread unemployment and poverty but also a generalised sense of by frustrated productive and expressive capacities, especially among young people, a radical constitutional response must invent a common plan to manage natural resources and social production.
Given that tinderbox, tiny sparks of pique can escalate into bushfires of uncontrolled outrage.
Hard to say given that Marks & Sparks's Bolivian red represents my sole experience of the country's vinous output so far.
But then again, given that Sparks booked his first professional TV hosting gig while still in high school (at 18 years of age, Hal was the host of Treasure Mall, that short-lived syndicated game show), he's already got over a quarter-of-a-century of in-front-of-the-camera time under his belt.
