Sentence examples for spark for conflict from inspiring English sources

This was the spark for conflict, the scale of which was glimpsed by virtually no-one in 1861.

If an Iranian "relief" shipment were confronted by Saudi naval forces, for example, it could spark open conflict between Shia and Sunni.

With less than 100 days to go until the independence referendum for Southern Sudan, human rights violations there could spark violent conflict.

In that 2012 election, there were concerns that some clans, whose rivalries have poisoned politics and sparked conflict for decades, with many controlling their own militia, had influenced the ballot through bribes.

While the prime minister has said the UN was right to condemn a bombing near a third school, he has otherwise only called for an immediate ceasefire, while taking care to blame Hamas for sparking the conflict.

The danger is that any miscalculation could spark a conflict.

His departure would trigger a cabinet reshuffle, which could spark renewed conflict within the ruling coalition.

That can spark armed conflict and its often-attendant atrocities and displacement.

This will spark generational conflict and alienation.

Tolba told me the Euphrates River could easily spark a conflict involving Turkey, Syria and Iraq.

"It is not like that anymore - but it is written that he was a Serbian nationalist, although he said himself that he was a Yugoslav nationalist," she concluded.Schools in Croatia teach that Serbia was to blame for helping to spark the 1914-18 conflict, by seeking to expand its territory and supporting a terrorist.