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Example sentences for: spurring

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In the early 1800s gold and silver were found in the Sierra Madre Mountains, spurring an explosive growth of mining towns, including Talpa de Allende and San Sebastián.
With hopes of spurring a “significant movement,” in 1997 the Sloan Foundation bet big on professional master's degrees, eventually spending $11 million on almost 100 programs across the US.
Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, pooh-poohing the new study, said that the best solution to the problems it raises--assuming they are problems--would be to cut the capital-gains tax, spurring greater investment.
The proposal comes from a man with a proven penchant for spurring debates--O.J.
Lee's exorcism has supposedly unearthed the "sweet little boy" inside him, spurring ex-wife Pamela Anderson to run back into his tattooed arms--and, apparently, into his bed.