But what seems spur-of-the-moment may have to do with something that happened years before, or with a bribe that was paid the previous day.
Just as falling prices seemed to spur interest, the rebound seems to have dampened it a bit.
Apple seems to spur suspicion among people that I don't understand.
But nothing seems to spur Mr. Schneider's enthusiasm like his business.
And our deep-seated alarm only seems to spur us into creating bubbles for our children to live in; an attempt to shut out the world, rather than change it.
A lack of trade seems to spur violence and undermine governance.The Tuareg drive right up to the border between Niger and Algeria, which consists of nothing more than a metal post and a sign in French beside a double row of tyre tracks in a sea of sand.
In this week's issue of Nature, pathologist Li-Huei Tsai of Harvard Medical School in Boston and her colleagues identify a faulty protein that seems to spur another protein to keep adding phosphates to tau molecules long after it should have stopped.
According to the new work, a protein called SIRT1 seems to spur fat breakdown in food-deprived animals by thwarting the actions of a protein that activates fat storage-promoting genes.
That double strike seemed to spur Tottenham.
An amputation didn't stem his motivation; rather, it seemed to spur it.
Moreover, in some cases, the cuts seem to spur faster growth.
