Sentence examples for initial spur from inspiring English sources

To use your metaphor, the initial spur of intent gets the horse going.

When writing the story, were you conscious of a Jamesian intention throughout, or were you happy to let it just be the initial spur?

Being pregnant with her own son in 1988 provides Kay with the initial spur to trace her roots, and the people she meets are very different from her mother's imaginings.

This idea of an individual capable of an act of terrible violence yet also able to write articulately about what they have done fascinates me, and was the initial spur for His Bloody Project.

Being pregnant with her own son in 1988 provides Kay with the initial spur to trace her roots, and the people she meets are very different from her mother's imaginings.

And the initial spur for Occupy Wall Street came from Adbusters, an organisation that spoofs ads and runs anti-consumerist or anti-capitalist campaigns, and which does have a guru – looping back to May '68, its tactics are modelled on Guy Debord's Situationism.

By next spring, there will be an initial westward "spur" expansion to reach the massive Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush, financed in part by £4m from the centre's operators.

Here's an initial survey, spurred in part by invaluable input from Veronique Choa Pittman of the Green Schools Alliance and from my visit last week to the engaging new Green Schools exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington.

As the steepness of that learning curve diminished, however, Bartlett "missed the intellectual intensity of those initial years". Spurred by a law school classmate who became an academic, Bartlett took a leave of absence to teach as a visiting assistant professor at Fordham Law School.

My curiosity about the initial event spurred me to take the risk and attend, even though I was uncertain how the evening would turn out.

Contrary to some initial reports spurred on by the (since changed) art accompanying the announcement blog post, Verizon tells me the big, purple Yahoo "Y" will (thankfully) not be the catchall logo for VZM.