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Example sentences for: spurred

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The Lincoln testing question spurred bioethicist Lori Andrews and her colleagues at the Chicago Historical Society to join with the Illinois Institute of Technology to review existing ethical issues of biohistorical research.
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.
Regretful for igniting the Paula Jones scandal, Brock admits the Spectator article was spurred by an "open political agenda."
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.
The WP explicates Buchanan's theory: the same "liberal interventionism" that spurred Hitler's aggression now threatens to drive Russia "straight into the arms of a Chinese Communist."