Sentence examples for ignited the flames from inspiring English sources

Butt or not, the Elliott-Stephens confrontation ignited the flames– and a couple of smoke bombs were thrown on to the pitch from the Stratton Bank stand, which housed the City fans.

Take Christianity, for instance, it inspired asceticism and otherworldliness, just as it ignited the flames of conflict and schism, in the 16th century, wars of religion as in the Crusades.

If it ignited the flame of public interest — and isn't that what we hoped for?

If it ignited the flame of public interest and isn't that what we hoped for?—then that flame will consume us.

Gary Hartley, senior vice president and creative director of Fox Sports, said that the designer, Scott Pickens, devised the feature, and soon, a computer code written into the graphics software automatically ignited the flame when the radar gun reached 93 miles an hour.

While doubts remain over whether it was the arrow that ignited the flame or if it was done by remote control, it shows how organisers can plump for the unexpected.

The spark that ignited the flame in Tunisia indeed has the potential to be global in nature.

At the opening ceremonies the final torch bearer, Eigil Nansen, received the Olympic torch and skied to a flight of stairs where he removed his skis, ascended, and ignited the flame.

That morning, I don't believe Officer Darren Wilson left for work knowing his tragic encounter with an unarmed young African American male, who he would shoot and kill, would be the spark that ignited the flame that has been slowly burning in the city of Ferguson -- the need for change.

His comparison of a hostile German MEP to a Nazi concentration-camp guard was incendiary enough; his half-apology failed to dampen things down; and then Stefano Stefani, a junior minister, re-ignited the flames by accusing German tourists of being "stereotyped blondes with ultra-nationalist attitudes" and of aggressive behaviour on Italian beaches.

Another button creates sparks to ignite the flames, and the Shishkebab comes to life.