The issue was sufficiently potent in 1935 to spark secession from the American Federation of Labor of its industrial union members.

No matter how devoted a man was, no matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord, he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual.

However, Kerr stated that while there was a spark of attraction, nothing ever happened.

According to tradition, a claim was once made that the shattering of a pumpkin frozen in liquid nitrogen and dropped from a sufficient height would produce a triboluminescent spark.

Thus Sophia ’ s power becomes enclosed within the material forms of humanity, themselves entrapped within the material universe: the goal of Gnostic movements was typically the awakening of this spark, which permitted a return by the subject to the superior, non-material realities which were its primal source.

The ball was rotated by means of a crank and a static electric spark was produced when a pad was rubbed against the ball as it rotated.

Notable among these was Ulrich von Hutten, a brilliant but erratic genius, who had thrown himself into the Lutheran cause and had declared that Erasmus, if he had a spark of honesty, would do the same.

The spark used to ignite the gunpowder in the touch hole was supplied by a sharpened piece of flint clamped in the jaws of a " cock " which, when released by the trigger, struck a piece of steel called the " frizzen " to create the necessary sparks.

A heat valve on the manifold would route the exhaust gases around the intake pipe, heating the kerosene to the point where it was vaporized and could be ignited by an electric spark.

The spark that ignited a national protest was overwhelming anger at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ( or Amritsar massacre ) of hundreds of peaceful civilians by British troops in Punjab.

The newest formulas of Mobilgas Special was advertised as offering " A Tune-Up in Every Tankful " due to a combination of chemicals known as the " Mobil Power Compound " which was designed to increase power, check pre-ignition ping, correct spark plug misfiring, control stalling and combat gumming up of carburetors.

This was followed by Benz, Mors, Turcat-Mery, and Nesseldorf, and soon was used on most cars up until about 1918 in both low voltage ( voltage for secondary coils to fire the spark plugs ) and high voltage magnetos ( to fire the spark plug directly, similar to coil ignitions, introduced by Bosch in 1903 ).

The only spark that was needed for this combustible situation to ignite was an example of evangelism provided by the " new IBM "-a few employees who took " empowerment " seriously, able to coordinate their efforts through participation in TEAMOS2 FORUM, an internal IBM discussion group )-and passionate supporters outside IBM who adopted the ideas and modeled the behaviors of those who were early activists within IBM ..

The initial spark was a fight between Chinese and Papua New Guinean workers at a nickel factory under construction by a Chinese company.

The final spark to rebellion came when Franco was exiled for criticizing Ayala.

It was important to leave the ignition on to allow the spark plugs to continue to spark and keep them from oiling up, while the engine could easily be restarted simply by re-opening the fuel valve.

She also fears that Mary's death might spark a rebellion by her Catholic subjects and cause problems with powerful France and Spain.

In 1790 a dispute by Britain and Spain over the Nootka Sound on the Pacific coast of North America threatened to spark a war between the two states.

In Spain, a wallet was a case for smoking paraphernalia: " Every man would carry a small sheaf of white paper in addition to a small leather wallet which would contain a flint and steel along with a small quantity of so-called yesca, being a dried vegetable fibre which a spark would instantly ignite.

He had just learned that the American vessel USS Maine had sunk off the coast of Cuba, which would most likely spark a war between Spain and the United States.

Summing up, he stated that in all these tests, the use of ebonite plates covered with copper or mixtures of copper and tin was less satisfactory than the use of filings ; with the plates, he was unable to obtain the initial resistance of the body after the action of the spark or of the current, while with the tubes and filings, the resistance could be brought back to its normal value by striking a few sharp blows on the support of the tube.

Their initial process used a spark machining process, named after the succession of sparks ( electrical discharges ) that took place between two electrical conductors immersed in a dielectric fluid.

Though Romana reveals that the equipment will bring him back after 2 minutes, the Doctor asserts that it is enough time for Scaroth to stop the explosion of the Jagaroth ship, itself the source of the spark of energy that created the beginnings of life on Earth ; should Scaroth prevent the explosion, every native living being on the planet will never have existed.

On June 27 around 11: 50 AM, after a dry three weeks, fire broke out in the Upham mill's lumberyard, probably ignited by a spark from a passing train.

In 2010, the European Commission announced its intention to sell out of its cereal stocks in order to stabilise the situation after a Russian grain export ban had stung world markets, sending wheat prices to two-year highs and sparked worries of a crisis in global food supplies that could spark widespread strains and protests.

An induction coil or " spark coil " ( archaically known as an inductorium or Ruhmkorff coil after Heinrich Ruhmkorff ) is a type of disruptive discharge coil.

In the early 1850s, after examining an example of a Ruhmkorff coil, which produced a small spark of around 2 inches ( 50 mm ) when energized, American inventor Edward Samuel Ritchie perceived that it could be made more efficient and produce a stronger spark by redesigning and improving its secondary insulation.

) He finished second to Elliot Forbes-Robinson at Charlotte after hitting a chicane and losing a spark plug wire, cracked up at St Jovite ; lost a radiator at the Glen.

" We thought we'd had too good a time with it, so let's make another record, do another tour, and if there's not another spark, we'll split up after that ," said Bachmann of the episode.

An electric spark starts the initial flame, and soon after the coil is hot enough to sustain a catalytic reaction and cause the fuel / air mixture to burn on contact.

Eventually, after a random encounter with a child in the street, he has the same spark that inspired him to write Fast Cars.

Finally, the spark plug must be situated in a position from which the flame front can reach all parts of the chamber at the desired point, usually around 15 degrees after top dead centre.

It was almost certainly MADD's dogged efforts to spark public debate that effected the drop in fatalities since 1980, when Candy Lightner founded the group after her daughter was killed by a drunk driver ," Balko wrote.

Due to the behavior of the working fluid ( air and fuel mixture ) before and after combustion, which have physical limitations on their flow, as well as their interaction with the ignition spark, the optimal valve timing, lift and duration settings under low RPM engine operations are very different from those under high RPM.

A decade after the events of Energon, when Primus's plan to contain Unicron's spark at the core of the Energon sun failed, the sun collapsed, becoming a deadly black hole that threatened Cybertron.

However, because of Allied appeasement and prior inaction, Hitler estimated that he could invade Poland, and Russia without provoking a general war or, at the worst, only spark weak Allied intervention after the result was already decided.

A similar effect which happened to Rodimus Prime of the G1 series where after he was severely damaged had gone into stasis, and though alive, appeared to exhibit no traces of life in his body since his spark was connected to the Matrix.

Optimus unleashed the power of the Matrix into Unicron's spark after it was discovered that the Chaos Bringer was the planet Earth.

Modeled after the famous " Daisy " ad from Lyndon B. Johnson's 1964 presidential campaign against Barry Goldwater, the TV ads warned that war with Iraq could spark nuclear armageddon.

This is a rare occurrence as usually the spark is terminated quickly after the damage is inflicted.

Crookes named his device after the Greek word ' spintharis ', meaning " a spark ".

Shortly after, as Tarantulas exited The Ark, Megatron rose from the pit, the power of his ancestor's spark having mutated him into a powerful fire and ice breathing dragon form.

Electric blue ( color ) is a very bright color reminiscent of a spark, named after the color of an argon sign.