Sentence examples for mere spark from inspiring English sources

Twice it seemed there was tension enough that a mere spark could have caused a conflagration.

This will keep building up and building up, and then a mere spark will be sufficient.

This week, a fire that may have started with a mere spark from a car destroyed nearly a dozen homes here and forced the one-day evacuation of half the town of 3,500.

In my view, it is fundamentally unsound, as well as grossly unfair, to deny recovery to those who are completely without cognitive capacity while permitting it for those with a mere spark of awareness, regardless of the latter's ability to appreciate either the loss sustained or the benefits of the monetary award offered in compensation.

For one thing, sectarian tension between Sunnis and Shiites in Lebanon - as in other countries - portends a terrifying fate that a mere spark could unleash.

When I ask if it's true he wanted to buy the rights to Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park, just the memory of how Steven Spielberg beat him to it by mere hours sparks hissing frustration: "That motherfucker!" While Cameron is known now for spending as much on films as small countries spend on their military, he in fact started out with small budgets.

Many of us see in animals more than mere flesh, a spark, intelligence, even spirit that deserves our respect as individuals as well as species.

Both companies have investigated and cleared Haskell of any wrongdoing, but the mere appearance has sparked a "major scandal," as the Times put it.

Perhaps the genre needs to reinvent its aesthetic before it can truly terrify us again; it's unlikely that mere lyrical content could spark moral panic in this increasingly contentious era.

"A mere 75-watt bulb sparked an exodus beyond biblical proportions in less than four seconds".

But the mere implication was enough to spark a wildfire of speculation and quick judgments on talk radio and the Internet.