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Example sentences for: spur

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education and training enhance the knowledge and skills of a nation's work force-the nation's human capital-and R&D can spur technological improvement.
force-the nation's human capital-as well as research and development to spur technological advances.
See, if the ECI was right, then that means that inflation is pretty well under control, which helped lower interest rates and spur a lot of buying in the stock market.
One is Bush's offer of $3 billion in loan guarantees to spur the construction of 2,000 charter schools in two years.
As the power of traders and private bankers has grown, government economic policy has become hostage to the financiers' and speculators' fears that economic growth will spur inflation, which will reduce the value of their holdings.