Sentence examples for spur popular from inspiring English sources

Ida Tarbell's 12-part series about Standard Oil and its predatory practices "would spur popular demand to dismantle the rapacious trusts".

Instead, activists are planning to spur popular concern about these issues, until calls for change are so loud that Congress must listen.

The single currency has created a situation of low or no growth and high unemployment, spurring popular anger and disaffection.

The administration sees the evidence as crucial to the support of friendly Muslim countries -- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan -- whose governments fear that punishing military action by the United States against the terrorists will spur widespread popular unrest.

But researchers from Human Rights Watch issued an exhaustive report showing the protest was spurred by popular discontent with local economic policies.

Spurred by popular pressure for national unity and rattled by turmoil elsewhere in the region, the rival leaderships of the two territories pledged to resolve their differences.

And it has largely focused eradication efforts, of the kind that once spurred strong popular resistance, outside the areas controlled by growers' unions, like in national parks.

The myth even spurred a popular movie franchise.