Sentence examples for ignited a wildfire from inspiring English sources

But when Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based television empire that has long broadcast to viewers around the world in Arabic and English, announced plans to start a U.S. news channel, it ignited a wildfire of controversy.

"The lesson that many emerging-market governments took from the crisis is that free-market capitalism had ignited a wildfire," Mr. Bremmer laments, "and that those who depended on it most had suffered the worst burns".

In April, an army drone crashed next to an elementary-school playground in Pennsylvania; in 2012 an unmanned navy surveillance aircraft nose-dived and ignited a wildfire in Maryland.

The mournful sounds and depressing sights quickly ignited a wildfire of public revulsion.

Sometimes a single traveler can ignite a wildfire of infections.

"The Human Centipede (First Sequence)," from 2010, was that rare thing: a grass-roots cult hit whose novelty — in this case a horror tableau in which three people are surgically linked mouth to anus — ignites a wildfire of notoriety.

During a late afternoon thunderstorm last August, lightning struck in the eastern shadow of Mount Adams, Washington state's second-highest volcano, igniting a wildfire that by the following afternoon had devoured more than 1,500 acres.

Here, a single spark can ignite a huge wildfire that reduces forests to charred stumps and homes to ash.

Firefighters responded twice to a weekend yard fire that officials believe rekindled four days later, igniting a huge wildfire that has destroyed 70 homes and continued to char 31 square miles near Myrtle Beach.

Directed by Sydney Macartney from a screenplay by Stuart Hepburn, the film is a disquieting study of how irresponsible demagoguery can ignite an ideological wildfire that consumes an entire community.

The flashpoint that begins in January will ignite into a wildfire that most of corporate America is not ready to address.