Well this has sparked a craze in Japan, because everyone's wanting a masterpiece.

Acceptance of racism has sparked a widespread resurgence in racist and xenophobic crimes.

The launch of the national dialogue process has received much publicity and sparked mixed reactions.

Now Russians wonder what has happened to their leader s face. His new smooth faced appearance has sparked rumors of Botox, or even plastic surgery.

Every stone has been turned, in particular since the intensive consultations sparked last summer by the High level Panel's report.

My comment sparked off an argument in the group.

The Tribunal's achievements have also generated increased respect for the rule of law, which has sparked judicial reforms throughout the region.

There was a computer spook, a broken wire, a converter that sparked.

That has sparked cholera epidemics in ports along the world and has led to increased concentration on trying to make sure shipping doesn't move these vectors of cholera around the world.

Regrettably, recent developments have sparked concern that the peace process is in jeopardy.

Unfortunately, by June 1998 increased military activity in certain provinces sparked new displacements.

These gorillas were murdered, some would even say crucified, and unsurprisingly, they sparked international outrage.

That dreadful holocaust sparked a virtually universal awareness of the imperative of nuclear disarmament and non proliferation.

On the contrary, as we consider the regional rivalries that this debate has sparked, it is extremely unlikely that the new permanent members would be able to act as regional representatives.

The killings sparked days of heavy rioting in the territories, during which at least two Palestinians were killed.

And I really want to spark their imaginations the way mine was sparked as a little girl watching Star Wars.

That prospect has already sparked renewed financial market volatility. In July, Bernanke attempted to calm investors with remarks signaling that, amid inadequate employment gains and persistently low inflation, the Fed would not abandon monetary stimulus anytime soon.

In Hong Kong, Zhao s sentence has sparked popular protests outside of government offices and formal objections from local officials. Reactions like these ought to be far more worrying to China s leaders than any rebuke from a group of Norwegians.

The Millennium Declaration has sparked renewed reflection and recognition that with the interlinkages of its goals and targets, the United Nations system, with its multisectoral character, needs to undertake a conscious, collective and coordinated response at the regional level.

A decision to de regulate petrol and diesel prices has sparked massive street protests and stoked fears of rampant inflation. Privatization of India s bloated public sector (from massive coal and steel enterprises to the loss making national carrier Air India) has been slow to get off the ground.

But, though ketamine s promise has stirred excitement among clinicians and neuroscientists, it has also sparked controversy, owing to the drug s potentially harmful side effects. Depending on the dose, a patient may experience altered physical, spatial, and temporal states larger quantities may induce hallucinations and dissolution of the self.

These population movements are exacerbating preexisting social tensions across the Arab world. In Lebanon, for example, the arrival of more than one million Syrians has sparked worries that the country s sectarian balance could be altered, undermining its fragile political system.

The re establishment of democracy and installation of a new Government in October 1993 had sparked the process of reviving and rebuilding the country.

However, violations of the Constitution and of civil service rules and regulations sparked off fresh political instability, the result of social, military and political unrest.

The wave of regionalism experienced by the region during the 1990s, sparked intraregional trade for some time, stimulating in this way gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

The fallout has shown the potential impact of an alleged gesture, especially in troubled times. Indeed, the kerfuffle sparked by the broadcast would not have happened before the 2008 financial crisis, which exposed the flaws in Europe s monetary union and turned proud countries against one another.

Today, the global picture is different. Sparked by Poland s Solidarity movement, the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the Soviet Union disintegrated, and the bipolar world and its East West divide vanished.

This sparked off a violent confrontation with camp residents who gathered on the surrounding rooftops and threw stones at the soldiers who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

The US has been behind the curve from the moment the turmoil sparked, trying to play catch up as two authoritarian governments were toppled by popular protest and more regimes try to cling to power as long as they can. The US needs to get out in front.

According to the U.S. State Department apos s Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996, apos in the last several years, informal predominantly Muslim migration to the province has sparked socio economic tension in urban areas, proving an even greater concern than the formally sponsored transmigration program apos .

These eye popping statistics have sparked a widespread, sometimes rancorous debate about whether people are taking far more medication than is needed for problems that may not even be mental disorders.

Now these statistics had a huge impact on me, but what really sparked my interest in my research was watching both my dad and my brother suffer from chronic allergies year round.

ECLAC analyses show that the wave of regionalism experienced in its member countries during the 1990s sparked intraregional trade for some time and stimulated gross domestic product growth, but now needs new momentum.

WASHINGTON, DC The Obama administration s decision to withdraw the bulk of United Sates troops from Iraq over the next 19 months has sparked fears that Iraq will once again plunge into the wide scale and debilitating violence that it endured from 2004 to 2007. Those fears are, for the most part, overblown.

76. The Special Rapporteur is not aware of any major steps which have been taken to resolve the property dilemma despite hopes for its gradual resolution sparked by the Normalization Agreement of August 1996.

Yet the 2004 Economic and Social Survey argues that while these issues are a major force , they are not a force majeure and that a balanced development can be sparked by an adequate mixture of policies.

After the death of her brother, Kim Jong il, last year, Kim Kyong hui was often seen accompanying her nephew on his inspection tours around the country. Her sudden disappearance has sparked much speculation about the fragility of the Young General s regime despite her notorious drinking habits, she was widely seen as the power behind Kim Jong un s throne.

PARIS Has the uprising in Tunisia sparked a new democratic wave that will conquer Egypt and eventually sweep away the authoritarian Arab exception ? After southern Europe in the 1970 s, Latin America in the late 1980 s, and Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990 s, it seems that now it is the Mediterranean region s turn.

I was reminded of that moment last month when I read Amy Chua s Wall Street Journal article, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, which sparked more than 4,000 comments on wsj.com and over 100,000 comments on Facebook. The article was a promotional piece for Chua s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, which has become an instant bestseller.

Alayan, whose arrest on 20 October had sparked riots in the West Bank, was one of 23 Palestinians who were released earlier as a traditional goodwill gesture on the occasion of Ramadan. (Ha aretz, Jerusalem Post, 7 January)

Simply put, the conventional wisdom that North Korea s collapse would be disastrous for China is misconceived. Any crisis sparked by North Korean refugees fleeing across the Chinese border would be short lived, and international assistance would be readily available.

Whereas these elections were not contested, the second round of municipal elections held in Serbia on 17 November 1996 sparked widespread and persistent protests by thousands of peaceful demonstrators in major cities, including the largest in Belgrade since 1991.

On 13 May 1997, a serious incident in Hrvatska Kostajnica, former Sector North, was sparked by the voluntary return of nine displaced persons from Eastern Slavonia, provoking some 150 ethnic Croat settlers from Orasje (Bosnia and Herzegovina) to riot.

But history has not been kind to major trade blunders. Just as the Smoot Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 sparked a global trade war that may well have put the great in the Great Depression, Congressional enactment of enforceable currency rules today could spark retaliatory actions that might devastate the free flow of trade that a sluggish global economy desperately needs.

The economic costs of the impasse have been catastrophic for Greece, and pose a grave threat to Europe. The breakdown of negotiations last week sparked a bank panic, leaving Greece s economy paralyzed and its banks on the verge of insolvency.