Saudis are bitter at Americans who are bitter about the Saudi hijackers, Saudi money funding Islamicist terrorism and Saudi madrasas sparking animosity toward Americans.
But sparks of animosity are more insidious, and it doesn't take long for domestic violence to erupt, which is disturbing given Mr. Stromgren's trite program note: "Leisure time is not good for certain types of relationships".
It took the Bush Administration's radical hostility to international law and diplomacy to spark an equal animosity in Annan, whose distaste for the continuously escalating war in Iraq is, of course, shared by a majority of the U.N.'s members.
While dumping refugees in PNG may hold immediate benefits for the Australian government, it is also likely to spark long term animosity between the two states.
Julian Assange has sparked intense personal animosity, especially in media circles – a revealing irony, given that he has helped to bring about more transparency and generated more newsworthy scoops than all media outlets combined over the last several years.
Such animosity can spark pogroms, such as the anti-Chinese riots in Jakarta and Solo in 1998, or the massacres of Madurese immigrants in Borneo in 1997 and 2001.Small wonder, then, that only a few years ago pundits were predicting Indonesia's imminent break-up.
CHICAGO — A law to limit collective bargaining rights for public workers in Wisconsin was unexpectedly published by a state agency on Friday despite a temporary restraining order barring publication, sparking confusion and more animosity among legislators who have fiercely debated the issue for weeks.
But locals say the patrols have failed to spark the kind of inter-communal animosity they were hoping to achieve with their attacks.
Whatever is the immediate spark, the poison of hatred and religious animosity has gone down too deep, too fast, in a short span of two decades, in a land of beauty that did not only inspire poets and produce great leaders but also is known for its pacifist Sufi influence.
Similarly, sparks of affection, signs of intimacy, flashes of animosity are quickly extinguished.
While much of the attention in Ferguson has been on Mr. Brown's death, federal officials quickly concluded that the shooting was simply the spark that ignited years of pent-up tension and animosity in the area.
