Sentence examples for main spur from inspiring English sources

So, how might they be used?Taiwan is the main spur for China's military modernisation.

The main spur was NATO's planned eastward expansion, viewed by Russia as a provocation and a betrayal.

The main spur for the town's redevelopment has been the exploitation of petroleum deposits along the coast of the gulf since the 1970s.

Almost all councils have cut their building plans in recent years, notes Alex Morton of Policy Exchange, a think-tank.That leaves central government as the main spur.

But isn't a government-driven attempt to manufacture "cool", well, just the opposite?The main spur for the government is envy at South Korea's outsize popular influence.

Rob Dobson, the Markit economist who compiled the survey, said: "The domestic market remained the main spur for growth in December, although there are also signs that global trade flows are stabilising as China and the US strengthen".

After all, one of the main spurs of record sales has always been Christmas or birthdays and you can't unwrap an MP3.

The abbey countered in a press release, "No potential exists for a new force main to spur any secondary development, or to create sprawl".

And the 10 gradual rate cuts, which brought down the refinancing rate by a total of 425 basis points since April, have failed to achieve its main goal: spurring lending to business.

Patricia Highsmith, the author of "The Talented Mr Ripley", a gruesome thriller of swapped identities, published "The Price of Salt", a lesbian romance, under the name Claire Morgan.Three main reasons spurred these writers to take the name of someone else.

On Thursday night, a third incident, a student's hanging a noose from a bookcase in the main library, spurred a large, multicultural mass of chanting and drumming students to occupy the chancellor's office for several hours on Friday and fed a simmering, some say much-needed, debate over race relations.