Sentence examples for spur achievement from inspiring English sources

The administration's proposal is intended to spur achievement.

Disparities can spur achievement when social mobility is perceived to be possible.

In a dramatic rebuttal to the commonplace claim that high pressure and fear spur achievement, we found that, at least in the realm of knowledge work, people are more creative and productive when their inner work lives are positive when they feel happy, are intrinsically motivated by the work itself, and have positive perceptions of their colleagues and the organization.

We meet dyslexics whose reading problems forced them to find more efficient ways to master law and finance (one is now a celebrated trial lawyer, another the president of Goldman Sachs); we learn why losing a parent in childhood forges a resilience that frequently spurs achievement in later life, and why you shouldn't necessarily attend the best university that will have you.

Did Calvinism spur worldly achievement because its doctrine of predestination removed all choice about the hereafter?

In 1997, President Bill Clinton also tried to create a common measure of performance in order to spur higher achievement.

John B. King, the education commissioner, says the state is certainly going in the wrong direction, but has a plan to spur students' achievement.

The empowerment of women is a goal that should be prioritized in development, but just as important, empowered women will spur the achievement of other development goals for men, boys, women and girls.

I am a realist, after all, and I do fret over things I may be able to do little or nothing about directly: economic injustice; wars and the repeated failure to learn from history; our gun-crazy society; the overreliance on tests to spur academic achievement; and attempts to strip women of their reproductive rights.

As testimony that a flexible alternative school also spurs academic achievement, Miss Kuroyanagi lists the accomplishments of Tomoe's graduates, who include an eminent physicist and East Asia's foremost authority on rare orchids.

There are several necessary components of such change, including the difficult task of identifying the teachers who spur higher student achievement.