Sentence examples for had not sparked from inspiring English sources

Even the bailout of the banking sector in 2008 had not sparked such a public inspection of bankers' ethics.

He noted, in a nod to the new language in the authority's policy, that Ms. Geller's campaign had not sparked violence.

Asked by the left-leaning newspaper Libération why his campaign had not sparked "élan and enthusiasm" and appeared not to have "inflamed the electors", Hollande remained courteous.

Their proliferation puzzled him, because earlier campus radicalism hadn't sparked such vast upheavals within the university.

The wine hadn't sparked optimism.

I was initially shocked that this hadn't sparked any sort of reaction from the staff in the room, so raised a complaint to the manager.

It's hard to say why Mexico and Asia have not sparked a hotter culinary fire together.

Hazard has been shifted about the front line in an attempt to reignite his season, but it has not sparked his form.

He has unnerved America's trading partners by caving in to congressional pressure for protectionism, but he has not sparked a full-blown trade war.

Despite France's Catholic heritage, support for assisted suicide is still high, and the issue has not sparked the same opposition as gay marriage.

Now it thinks that they will be less than 2% because heady growth has not sparked inflation; indeed, it continues to fall.