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Example sentences for: spur

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Setbacks in the 1930s caused by the European postwar slump were only a spur to redouble efforts by diversifying heavy industry into the machine-making, metallurgical, and chemical sectors.
While such anecdotes commonly spur alternative-medicine fads, Eby took the admirable step of instigating a 1984 clinical trial of zinc lozenges that found the treatment cut the duration of colds in half.
The International Monetary Fund must bail out banks when their failure might spur a worldwide depression (as in Asia).
The three papers leading with 209 all make it clear that the decision will probably spur 209-style laws in many states.
An impasse on disarmament could paralyze the two-month-old power-sharing government in Belfast and may ultimately spur the UK to re-impose direct rule.