Sentence examples for spur us to from inspiring English sources

A pinch to the tune of $4.50 to $5 for a gallon of gasoline would go much further to move us from dependency on foreign oil and to spur us to use this resource less wastefully in more efficient automobiles, as most of the rest of the world has learned to do.

Not once during the minutes Barack Obama spoke of the murders and the loss did I ever feel that this speech had an agenda other than to honor those who died, and to use their sad deaths to spur us to become a better country.

But is fear enough to spur us to action?

The award, for which he said he was grateful, "will spur us to undying effort".

Today, we have no cold war to spur us to explore space.

But once an attractive destination exists, our exploratory brains will almost certainly spur us to innovation.

The effort to make X-ray astronomy useful to astronomers of all disciplines spurred us to provide data of guaranteed quality to all observers.

This has spurred us to search for the kernel of gold in this situation.

This sensitivity sometimes spurs us to gestures of welcoming generosity, and at other times provokes defensive, jealous, and xenophobic reactions.

It had been another long day of cross-country skiing, but his message spurred us to action.

Like charismatic megafauna, revolting microfauna spurs us to action: we form committees, cough up funding, demand that something be done.