Sentence examples for a spur for a from inspiring English sources

For Wright, black Chicago's highly competitive religious market was a challenge and a spur; for a different preacher, in a different era, it could be a threat.

Not so long ago, ministers saw the emergence of community-based housing enterprises as a spur for a short-lived volunteering initiative championed by David Cameron.

In the early 1980's, the supremacy of the Alawites, historically regarded in Syria as heretics, was a spur for a violent rebellion by Islamic fundamentalists.

It was a spur for him to apply for a place at the just-reopened Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

Many cite the Chinese ruling party's corruption as a spur for seeking a freer climate elsewhere and even say that Africa is a lot less corrupt by comparison.At the same time, many Chinese in Africa have intensely nationalist feelings, often expressed in crudely racist terms.

An intriguing element of Feldman's bid, said two officials involved in the sale, is that he cites how a team can be a spur for charitable work, a mission similar to the one cited by Raymond Chambers and Lewis Katz when they bought the Nets and vowed to devote 40percentt of team profits to charities to benefit inner-city youths.

Paradoxically, voters' grumpiness may be a spur for radical change.

What is sport if not a spur for endeavour?

These could prove to be a spur for investment and productivity.

The most troubled need better access to neighbouring markets and a spur for structural reforms.

Such visibility is a spur for the N.H.L. to go to Sochi despite any hardships.