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The violence was initially sparked by allegations that a gang of Rohingya men had raped an Arakanese woman.

This was initially sparked by a combination of changes to its "non-white" membership, unnecessary and costly legal cases and the hiring of a deeply unpopular business consultant.

Speculation over a possible Dambusters remake was initially sparked in May, when Jackson reportedly spent a day filming one of the last surviving Lancaster bombers that took part in the mission.

Ms. Drobbin, whose interest in architecture was initially sparked during a summer college internship in New Orleans, spent the early part of her career working as a preservationist on a variety of projects.

Explains co-founder Keegan Cooke, the idea for the MudWatt was initially sparked following his work as a research scientist at a small startup called Trophos Energy, which was acquired in 2010.

Moellers's depression was initially sparked by bullying at school.

To trowel on the pain, some perceptions of the city are still shaped by the convulsive riots of 2001 – which were initially sparked by hostility to the BNP, but essentially were aimed at the police, and which resulted in 200 local people being sent to prison.

Suspicions that honours were being sold were initially sparked in January last year by a newspaper sting in which Des Smith, a government adviser, told a reporter posing as a possible donor to Labour's city academies that a big donor might expect a knighthood as a reward.

Credit concerns were initially sparked by a weakness in America's subprime mortgage lending market.Talks on Kosovo's future continue, with the European Union's envoy, Wolfgang Ischinger threatening to remove the possibility of bloc membership from Serbia and Kosovo if a deal cannot not be reached.

They were initially sparked by a Supreme Court ruling to curb the powers of the national assembly, a move which was later overturned.

The protests were initially sparked in 2015 by the expansion of a municipal boundary in the Oromia region, the nation's largest, with farmers afraid they would be forced off their land.