After Cronin's death, the city's secretive Irish societies came under intense scrutiny, and the public, spurred by a sensationalist press, declared them to be unseemly, dangerous, and unpatriotic.
The proposal, which has not been made public, spurred Dr. ElBaradei to give an upbeat assessment about a possible swift resolution of the impasse over Iran's program, an official familiar with his thinking said.
I was interested in how a pregnancy, possibly the most personal thing that can happen to someone, is also extremely public, spurring reactions from every single person even tangentially involved.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn's subsequent brief affair with Ms. Nagy, who is married, soon became public — spurring an internal investigation at the fund that would ultimately clear him of having abused the power of his office.
Far from crowding out private R&D, moreover, these public investments spurred additional private innovation.
First, their records start selling again, as the public are spurred to the shops by grief and nostalgia.
In the two years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed a hundred and forty-six garment workers, in 1911, public outrage spurred major improvements in factory safety.
The rampage came amid deepening public outrage spurred by the burning of Korans by American personnel last month and an earlier video showing American Marines urinating on dead militants.
Almost every high-performing charter network in the country, from KIPP to Achievement First, uses significantly more scheduled time to achieve impressive academic gains, and many public schools, spurred by local initiatives, innovative state policies and federal leadership, are also adopting this promising practice.
Coming after a period of deepening public outrage, spurred by the Koran burning by American personnel last month and an earlier video showing American Marines urinating on dead militants, the possibility of a violent reaction to the killings added to a feeling of siege here among Western personnel.
The last decades have seen a surge in the application of evolutionary biology to medicine and public health, spurred by the seminal book Why We Get Sick (Nesse and Williams 1994) and featured in several multi-authored volumes (Stearns and Koella 2007; Trevathan et al. 2008), special issues of scientific journals (Stearns et al. 2010), and a recent textbook (Gluckman et al. 2009).
