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Example sentences for: spurred

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Spurred by this revelation, an Israeli journalist and historian named Tom Segev took up the cause, arguing that the document is stolen property and belongs rightfully to Eichmann's heirs.
This tragedy spurred him in his hazardous ricocheting between Belgrade, Zagreb, and Sarajevo and helped bring about better-late-than-never NATO airstrikes in 1995.
As a nonspecialist, simply a lover of words, an amateur precisianist and a crossword addict--alas, I find yours too easy--I am spurred to take issue with Tony Day [XX,4,21] on the subject of rhyming slang.
When the unexpected Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 spurred his emigration to the United States, Bela Julesz, with his Hungarian doctorate in engineering, joined the numerous mathematical luminaries working at AT&T Bell Laboratories, such as John Tukey, Harry Nyquist, Claude Shannon, and John Kelly.
Apparently, concerns about just this kind of situation spurred Congress to pass the Sherman Antitrust Act back in the 1890s.