Sentence examples for spur industries from inspiring English sources

That is unlikely to be enough to spur industries with hundreds of billions of dollars in sunk assets to think of shifting to hydrogen especially when petrol is so cheap.

The NGO is using the lever of P&G's big name in an attempt to spur industry-wide change in the sourcing of palm oil.

For more context: some say in-game advertising will ruin the video game industry altogether, others believe standards will spur industry growth, and a recent article on our sister site Crunchgear (based on another study) suggested gamers don't have a problem with in-game advertising at all.

Since their daughter's death, the couple have worked with unions and Jones' film industry colleagues to promote greater awareness of film-set safety and spur industry changes.

In recent times, China's leaders have unleashed enormous quantities of state finance to seed auto ventures in every province, spurring industries that have grown along with the ubiquity of the car.

The need for commercial exports, as well as a growing population at home, spurred industry in many towns.

The Beginnings Clinton Plan Spurred Industry Into Action It was the White House -- the Clinton White House -- that provided the impetus for the drug makers' long-running campaign to shape the public discussion about a Medicare drug benefit.

History has shown time and again that the short-term inefficiencies of a tariff, properly implemented, are more than compensated for by the long-term spur to industry growth it can provide, largely because growth has more to do with the industry externalities mentioned above (problem number four) than short-term efficiency per se.

A century later Adam Smith and David Hume portrayed luxury as a spur to industry and to social co-operation.

Perhaps the threat of an investigation will spur the industry to reform itself.

The hunger for mobility spurred satellite industries, from filling stations to road construction to motels.