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Example sentences for: spurred

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The current capacity was originally built overseas to meet overseas demand or was subsequently built to meet U.S. demand for catalyst spurred by the NOX SIP Call and the build up of gas turbine power plants in the U.S.
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."
Stiff James, the oldest, wanted to be a writer (he ended up a curate) and spurred Jane to compete.
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.
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.