Sentence examples for ignited a movement from inspiring English sources
Now, more than a year after he ignited a movement with his unsuccessful bid, that question is moot.
Between them they have five children, aged 8 to 25, yet they may just have ignited a movement that will change the world.
"To be sure, Warren – and grassroots economic populism more broadly – was already a rising force well before our efforts began … Although Run Warren Run may not have sparked a candidacy, it ignited a movement," they wrote.
Perhaps Trayvon Martin's death — and perhaps even the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial — has inspired and ignited a movement of people who, frankly, needed to be moved".
But Sanger, who would go on to establish the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, had founded something much larger than a clinic: she ignited a movement for women's reproductive freedom.
(To push this analogy further, Mr. Soderbergh's first feature, "sex, lies, and videotape," is his Cuba — an act of youthful will and the spark that ignited a movement — while his second feature, a stubborn folly called "Kafka," could have been his Bolivia).
And Rosa Parks, by refusing to sit in the back of the bus, helped ignite a movement that has altered race relations throughout the United States.
My hope is that the story of Brittany Maynard will ignite a movement everywhere – to change outdated, inhumane laws across the world that govern end-of-life decision-making – so that no one has to suffer as my father did.
It is nearly a year since women began to accuse the movie producer Harvey Weinstein of "decades of sexual harassment" in the pages of the New York Times – a moment credited with igniting a movement.
