0 past simple and past participle of spark --
1 to cause the start of something, especially an argument or fighting: --
The visit of the G20 leaders sparked off (= caused the start of) mass demonstrations.
The recent interest-rate rises have sparked new problems for small businesses.
This proposal will almost certainly spark another countrywide debate about immigration.
The large cache lines transferred on remote reads contain evaluated closures and sparked but unevaluated closures, as expected.
Both were sparked by the threat of investigation into financial and human rights crimes committed by the previous regime.
This incident sparked public demands by other lawyers for a transition to a multiparty system.
In other words, exploration sparked an ecological vision, leavened with respect for the power of the natural world.
This earlier work sparked great controversy, and led to very fruitful debates in philosophical theology and epistemology.
In principle, we may suppose that at one extreme the allegorical meaning is merely top-dressing, an occasional implication sparked by a detail.
The growing commercialization, specialization and competition that followed sparked debates that shaped both politics and social institutions into the nineteenth century.
Even more revealing are occasions when workmen invoked clauses in the company charter to put their case, especially when grumbling about election procedure sparked quarrels.
