Sentence examples for lit a rocket from inspiring English sources

But Atkinson has done her research and then, as novelists should but rarely do, lit a rocket of her own under it.

In his early weeks in power he lit a rocket under the bureaucracy (though he is still said to be aghast at the resistance, listlessness and lack of capacity he has met among even senior civil servants).

Monetary easing by the Bank of Japan after the 1987 Louvre Accord, which was intended to halt the dollar's fall, together with incentives to expand consumer and mortgage credit, lit a rocket under equity and land prices.

It may not have dislodged George W Bush from the presidency, but it attracted huge audiences (taking $119m£74m4m) in the US alone), and lit a rocket under the entire documentary-making scene.

50 years ago to the day, a 20 year-old history, Arabic and medieval Spanish student at King's College, Cambridge, lit a rocket under the musical establishment, and he's spent the last half-century continuing to shock and awe, agitate and enlighten, entertain and energise audiences and performers all over the world - but mostly, and most importantly, in the UK ever since.

Misty Copeland's leap into American mainstream consciousness has lit a rocket under ticket sales, inspired the creation of a Barbie doll in her image, and prompted at least one television announcer to admire the "Misty Copeland-esque moves" of a leading wide receiver in college football.

Mal Meninga tried to light a rocket under Dave Taylor after the in-form Titans backrower was called into the Queensland squad as a late replacement for the injured Corey Parker.

These people (and the approximately 25percentt of dads who derive their only happiness from their yearly home garden bonfire, emanating pure joy as they fucking bomb it, giggling, down to the slabs after lighting a rocket) are the only ones who deserve to celebrate Bonfire Night.

Anyone who lit a bottle rocket or M-80 without glancing nervously over their shoulder obviously wasn't in the proper spirit of the thing.

It's as if she had lighted a bottle rocket.

As nearly every child who has ever dreamed of lighting a bottle rocket in the backyard knows, the Chinese, probably by the ninth century, hit on the crazy idea of mixing sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate to create gunpowder.