Sentence examples for first spurred from inspiring English sources

The Japanese first spurred the use of Vostochny as part of a Eurasian land bridge decades ago.

The case of Artyom at first spurred a strong reaction, with some Russians saying that a country whose population is shrinking should never send its children abroad.

It was the killing of Cupcake, a border collie mix, in a conibear trap last winter that first spurred the anti-trapping campaign here.

Aside from Clipper Windpower and General Electric, most of the turbine manufacturers operating in the United States have headquarters overseas, especially in Europe, where wind power took off first, spurred by clean energy policies and generous subsidies.

Shenzhen is often criticized as a product of unregulated development, better suited to the speculators that first spurred its growth than to the workers housed in huge complexes of factory-run barracks.

The movement to the runner-up spot was first spurred by a 49% digital gain, which took the song to the top of the Hot Digital Songs chart, selling 209,000 digital copies that week.

The second, spurred by the carnage of the early 1990s in Bosnia, Somalia and Iraq, depicts Picasso in his Paris studio at work on his antiwar masterpiece "Guernica".

The Greek-Cypriot has already eliminated Andy Roddick, David Nalbandian and Ivan Ljubicic, the second, fourth and seventh seeds, spurred on by a raucous following including upwards of 30 locally-based family members.

The discovery of a colossal head at Tres Zapotes in the nineteenth century spurred the first archaeological investigations of Olmec culture by Matthew Stirling in 1938.

But Willian was thinking south of Liverpool — first Spurs, then the Blues of Chelsea.

He stands to become the first Spur since Gary Lineker, in 1991-92, to reach 30.