Sentence examples for spur the building from inspiring English sources

The goal is to spur the building of efficient models and systems for small savings accounts.

The Twin Cities Metropolitan Council predicts that light rail will spur the building of more than 7,000 housing units and 19m square feet of office space, almost as much as downtown Minneapolis has already.

The former mayor was all but obsessed with building stadiums for wealthy sports teams, but he did little to spur the building of affordable housing, even as the homeless population was rising toward record levels.

It will bring in many more conventioneers and tourists, and spur the building of new hotels and shops: Dan Doctoroff, the city's deputy mayor, says the city had to turn away 54 conventions in the past few years, worth $300m in visitor spending.The most important arguments turn on inspired guesses about how much new economic activity the NYSCC will generate.

The Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883, but according to the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, the completion of the Kings County Elevated Railway along Fulton Avenue in 1888 was what spurred the building of single-family homes.

The policy, first adopted amid the famine of the 1990s, spurred the building of nuclear weapons and gave the military and its leaders a more prominent place in the government and in North Korean society.

Among the angelfish and butterfly fish, giant spider crabs and tiny, pulsing jellyfish, it's easy to forget the human disasters that spurred the building of this monstrosity.

The certificates enable developers to help spur the construction of new affordable buildings without having to do it themselves.

That it took a splash of government cash to spur the conservative building industry into action should not surprise anybody.

Banks are now making $15 billion a year in home loans, with the lowest interest rates in decades helping to spur the spending, building and borrowing.

One discovery in particular spurred the change: Building inspectors had failed to detect the dismantling of a standpipe that would have carried water to firefighters who died in 2007 battling a blaze at the top of the former Deutsche Bank building near ground zero.