Sentence examples for spur as from inspiring English sources

Other categories, like best actor or best cinematography, don't spur as much interest from ticket buyers, they say.

Likely to continue to spur as much criticism as support, the analyses of the new database go on.

If, on the other hand, QE2 doesn't spur as much economic growth as the Fed hopes, long-term bond investors might stop fixating on inflation and start to worry about another economic downturn — as they did earlier this year when the European debt crisis struck.

Capital Sports has resisted pressure from customers to cut prices, and seen sales drop from more than 1m balls in 1998, a World Cup year, to 400,000 last year.Atlanta has been a spur as well as a brake, helping some manufacturers become more competitive.

Providing a spur as well as solace, the groups offer glimpses in miniature at the travails of a swath of individuals in this recession whose lives had once seemed, if not charmed, at least quite comfortable as they carved out places in the middle and upper-middle class.

On the other hand, the eastern spur, as proposed, would run smack into the migrating gazelles.

They always come messy, spurred as much by the fecklessness of allies as the mendacity of enemies.

The Spurs, as noted last week, have been at a disadvantage without their best player, point guard Tony Parker.

They reinvigorated a longstanding rebellion in the north, spurring as many as 1,600 Malian soldiers to defect, according to one senior Malian military official.

Minnesota, Sacramento and whichever team survives the East is not only viewed as inferior to the Lakers, but to the Spurs as well.

Two other Republicans really should hang up their spurs as well, but probably won't.