Sentences with phrase «helped spark»

Color Recipes for Painted Furniture and More presents 40 new projects and paint inspirations by Annie Sloan, one of the world's foremost experts in the decorative painting field who helped spark a painted furniture revolution.

Although real estate investment activity has waned in recent months, interest in overseas properties and growing international trade helped spark the largest lodging expansion ever during the first decade of the 21st century, says Patrick Ford, president of Portsmouth, N.H. - based Lodging Econometrics.

In addition, recent volatility in the growth and technology sector has helped spark new interest in REITs.

Here's a very useful recap of the day from O'Brien Solicitors who are representing Dylan Voller, whose treatment at the Don Dale juvenile detention centre helped spark the investigation.

Everything from classic children's programming like Sesame Street to more advanced (yet SO intriguing) shows like NOVA helped spark my imagination and curiosity.

A suit by whistleblower Kyle Lagow helped spark the investigation, and Lagow was awarded $ 14.5 million, according to Reuters.

New York Law professor and program organizer Elizabeth Chambliss says several factors helped spark the initiative: deep cuts in associate hiring, recession - driven changes to the broader legal market and the Carnegie Foundation's highly critical 2007 report on how law schools are failing to teach students practical skills.

The state's ongoing drought has helped spark an intense heat wave that's almost literally off the charts, helping to spark massive wildfires and play havoc with the nation's food system.

It's doubtful that Jedlik foresaw the brief dominance of the electric car or its 21st century resurgence, but that doesn't me he doesn't deserve any credit for the creation he helped spark.

I start the essay by explaining how a post by Megan Garber about Instapaper helped spark my line of thinking:

Our work has helped spark broad collaboration among national and regional conservation groups and Alaska Native organizations aimed at protecting the Arctic Ocean from risky drilling.

Our work has helped spark the formation of new organizations ranging from the Plug - In Partners soft - buy order campaign to Google.org's RechargeIT, and has contributed to automakers» decisions to announce the Chevy Volt, Toyota Plug - In Prius and other plug - in cars, expected in the next decade.

The EGSP established that there was a lot of natural gas in shales, and helped spark the interest of Mitchell Energy.

The atlas may also help shed light on more recent phenomena, including drought in the Levant that a recent Lamont study suggests may have helped spark the ongoing Syrian civil war.

Lott's community oriented philosophy and his Artists in Action program helped spark the creation of the now famous Project Row Houses (Harithas, 1999).

According to Schafer, the blog post helped spark a huge wave of applications from people Double Fine had never heard from before.

According to the CBJ, Moreno is a well accomplished jurist who also authored some of California's key gay rights opinions and helped spark recent changes in the foster care system.

It is this trend toward care and longevity that has helped spark the creation of a full range of life - stage oriented pet products geared to improving the lives of dogs throughout their lifespans.

I'm extremely excited to be able to give back to the horses that helped spark my passion for veterinary medicine.»

The recent entrance of Schwab into the ETF market has helped spark a new wave of price cutting, and my low - cost portfolio has gotten even cheaper.

The lowest interest rates in years helped spark a resurgence in the VA's refinance program, which includes the no - frills Streamline, or Interest Rate Reduction Refinance Loan (IRRRL), and the Cash - Out Refinance.

This helped spark the equity retreat and offered a stark reminder that the pace of rate increases matters.

His father was a member of Poland's Solidarity trade union, which helped spark the movement that would topple communist rule in Eastern Europe.

«This challenge taught me how to optimize my author page on Amazon, how to select the best keywords and categories for my books and helped spark promotional ideas that I'll roll out over the next few months.

Retail deliveries of the Trax, a vehicle that helped spark the rapid growth of the small crossover segment, were up 45 percent.

But class sizes have begun to increase, and many of the supports that educators here say helped spark improvements over the last 15 years have been removed.

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Fortunately, I have Theresa, a great co-teacher and mentor that helped spark the passion that I had lacked since my time as a student.

Mayoral control has helped spark needed change in Boston and New York, improving student performance and working to close the achievement gap.

Twenty - five years after the first charter law was enacted in Minnesota, the public charter school sector has helped spark significant public education improvements, particularly for urban students and students of color.

It includes not only a historical look at the origins of the network and how it expanded over time, but also a look at the movement it helped spark that is helping young people obtain important skills early on, as well as transition from school to the labor market fully prepared to be successful.

His father graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in engineering, and his college - educated mother helped spark in her children a long - lasting love for learning.

The Dumb Girl of Portici — Archival presentation of silent film director Lois Weber's adaptation of the opera that inadvertently helped spark the Belgian Revolution.

The series, which brought him a global fan base, is widely considered one of the best television shows in history and helped spark the current «binge watching» trend in its afterlife.

While Elvis Presley and the cast of Rebel Without a Cause helped spark a new appreciation for bootcuts among the Youthquake culture, most people considered them too closely linked with the working man to wear them.

At least that's the premise of Forks Over Knives, the film and the book that «helped spark a nutrition revolution.»

The Great Dairy Deception and Why You'll Thrive Without Milk and Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice, which helped spark a series of class - action lawsuits in the US against orange juice companies.

The squalid conditions in which the animals lived also helped spark an animal rights movement in the 19th century and provided the impetus for the opening, in 1828, of a garden in Regent's Park devoted to «the advancement of Zoology and Animal Physiology,» whose goal would be to inspire scientists «rather than encouraging the «vulgar admiration» of the public.»

But analysts say some of these goals will be a stretch to achieve, and they also have helped spark a domestic debate over how these goals will improve life for India's citizens.

Shkreli's defiant decision to raise the price of Daraprim, a drug that dates to the 1950s and is the standard treatment for a life - threatening parasitic infection, from $ 13.50 to $ 750 per tablet overnight, helped spark more than a year of public outrage and political fulminating against high drug prices.

In a region already pressed for water, the droughts have already helped spark a new migration in a vast region where people until now have lived the same way for centuries, moving herds from place to place and living in tents.

This doesn't work in children, says Harvard immunologist Laurie Glimcher, who helped spark the idea for the center and will be an associate director.

This 1993 photo of a crew tying up minke whales during a Japanese «research» expedition helped spark a global outcry and court action.

The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill helped spark a massive, ongoing die - off of dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, a new study suggests.

Among the remains inhumed in the cemetery are those of teenage civil rights icon Emmett Till (whose 1955 murder helped spark the civil rights movement) and blues singer Dinah Washington.

So I assume your father helped spark your discovery of Penrose tiles, repeating shapes that fit together to form a solid surface with pentagonal symmetry.

His predecessor, Mike Bloomberg, was a staunch antismoking advocate and helped spark the nearly universal smoking ban in restaurants, bars and other public places.

This isn't the first time de Blasio has sought a piece of the national debate that he helped spark on income inequality.

He wrote that Portman's policies under Bush cost Ohioans jobs and helped spark «the worst economic recession in our lifetimes.

His first run, as a Conservative Party candidate in a three way race, helped spark a bitter divide within the GOP and was one reason Democrat Bill Owens won a district his party hadn't controlled in over a century.