Sentence examples for notion sparked from inspiring English sources

That notion sparked a conversation about what adults, and teenagers, may take for granted as being private or restricted.

In the early 1980s, when he was just getting started at Robert Mondavi Winery, that same notion sparked wine fever in Australia and then Chile.

Few of these notions have sparked as much passion as the push to abolish the electoral college, the winner-take-all system in which each state is apportioned a certain number of votes based on congressional representation.

But can we apply this notion of sparking joy on a larger scale?

Turkey also wants to jump-start talks to join the E.U., a notion that has sparked horror and vows to block the deal by Cyprus, an E.U. member and former target of a Turkish invasion.

Starr also "sparked the notion you could go out to eat for fun" as much as for food.

If the notion of war being sparked by a character clash is purest Nichols, then war as war — as cruelty and privation — is another country, and, as he showed in "Catch-22," back in 1970, it leaves him cold and panicked.

He adds that the ash is directly tied to the human-driven increase in CO2 that sparked the notion of the Anthropocene in the first place.

This, we later learn in the Times story, is known as the "Ferguson effect" -- the notion that the protests sparked by Michael Brown's death last summer have somehow precipitated a climate of crime where the police cannot police.

That obesity is common among those diagnosed with clinical psychosis [ 14, 15] has sparked the notion that obesity may be linked to psychological health and well-being.

The notion of merging the countries sparked considerable debate over whether Team GB should even participate at all, and it is possible that the British teams will hear boos in their own country.