Sentence examples for initial spur for from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

Fossil skulls of two ancient, mammal-like reptiles suggest that natural selection for a keener sense of smell was the initial spur behind bigger brains in early mammals, according to a report online today in Science.

Trade was the spur for both.

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

Choose the right spur for you.

Fryers, a former Manchester United youth-team player, joined from Spurs for an initial £1.5m with that fee potentially to double over the course of his contract with add-ons.

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.

There were also a few spurs for business investment.

Values were 3% versus 13% for the plantar spurs and 10% versus 18% for the Achilles spurs for men and women respectively.