Sentence examples for greater spur from inspiring English sources

"It is almost a greater spur to be stronger as a consequence of it.

Tie teachers' pay to kids' grades, and there is a greater spur to fiddle the test scores.

Yet higher rates of employment and more certainty over jobs would be a greater spur as they are strongly linked to household formation.

Nothing would be a greater spur to the gathering mood among Afrikaners that they must give more wealth and responsibility to their black people and learn to live at ease on a black continent.It is the peace of southern Africa that is at stake.

But commercial pressure is a great spur for artists.

Yet so often, the greatest spur to the imagination is limitation.

The rise of fascism in Europe in these years was a great spur and cohesive force to the French Left.

And fear is always a great spur to the imagination and for digging deep into yourself to find the confidence to pull it off.

"One great spur to me was Beckett's play 'Eh Joe,' with the camera on Michael Gambon's face as he simply listened to a woman speaking in voice-over," Mr. Padmore said.

It may not be the worst thing in the world to find yourself side by side at a cocktail party with the angry man whose work you described as mediocre in last Sunday's paper, but the threat of such encounters is not a great spur to critical honesty.

The unnecessary death is a great spur".