Sentence examples for becomes a spur from inspiring English sources

The idea of "American" becomes a spur for discussing the ways that blackface works in the nineteenth century to equate the notion of Americanness with whiteness.

U.S. Route 97 and State Route 20 also run north-south through Omak, connecting the municipality to Okanogan 5 miles south along this route and Brewster 32 miles south, Nespelem 35 miles southeast is connected to the community by the east-west State Route 155, before it becomes a spur route and continues west along Omak Avenue to terminate into State Route 215.

Disaster, in short, can become a spur to innovation.

Thus, an institution devised as a way of regulating violence became a spur to violence.

The students' newfound grasp of the Kafkaesque became a spur to interpretive complications, which several students decided to pursue independently in their final essays on Elizabeth Costello.

Once the enforcer of communist orthodoxy, the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev became a spur to change: that shift inspired democrats and sapped their persecutors.

Let the suffering of Chechnya's gays boomerang on to their oppressors: let it become a spur to mobilise us against all forms of homophobia everywhere.

The big, gangly, hot and cold Togo striker was taken to England by Wenger, left for the greater riches of Manchester City, and became a Spur after City offloaded him this summer.

So Jefferson became a Spur, Shaq joined LeBron, Vince joined Dwight, and the gap between the talent-rich and the talent-poor grew into a grand canyon, almost overnight.

Dips in stock prices can no longer be confidently seen as a chance to pick up stock bargains, he said, but will become a spur to look at alternatives.

The extension caused the road to Sheridan to become a spur route of Route 46.