Sentence examples for spur someone from inspiring English sources

Who knows, maybe it will even spur someone to act.

The purpose of what seem to be "amazing discounts" is to offer "some trip-driving items," Ms. Sanchez said, meaning merchandise that would spur someone to shop a store and, the merchant hopes, also buy some items at full price.

The tiles also function as mini-apps, displaying realtime information and updates which might spur someone to launch an app.

To say a blanket statement that sanctuary cities in and of itself spur someone to commit a heinous crime is really offensive.

I called John Christensen, Director of the Tax Justice Network, and ask him how the Queen ended up in the same position as Jimmy Carr a few years ago, and if this could spur someone to finally deal with tax avoidance.

A study conducted by Harvard University researchers did not find an association between diet soda intake and diabetes risk, instead linking the increased diabetes risk with other factors that might spur someone to drink diet in the first place (like being overweight), Reuters reported.

This isn't the healthiest way to communicate, since you're essentially taking advantage of (and spurring) someone's misguided rebelliousness.

And the diagram made clear that desire — at least the way many tend to think of it, as a lust or craving that spurs someone toward having sex — might or might not play a role in making a woman want sex and, in any case, isn't at all necessary for the sex to be satisfying.

But I wonder if there was someone else like me, and the possibility of messages I spread spurring on someone's own internalized cycle scares me.

While a $4,000 credit could offset the cost of the company's lowest-cost health insurance plan, he said, it would not spur him to hire someone.

The one actor with the requisite fire is Chiwetel Ejiofor, whose fine Romeo progresses from moping courtly lover to someone spurred by untrammelled sexual desire.