Sentence examples for spurred legislation from inspiring English sources
The kidnapping in 1932 of the infant son of the internationally known American aviator Charles A. Lindbergh spurred legislation imposing the death penalty for transporting a kidnapped victim across a state line.
These revelations spurred legislation to reduce lead exposure, but an important source of lead may have been overlooked, says geochemist Gabriel Filippelli of Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI).
That court decision spurred legislation in California later that year to bar discrimination in jury selection.
The record-low 42% turnout at the polls in last November's state election spurred legislation that will allow eligible Californians to be automatically registered to vote when they obtain or renew a driver's license at the DMV.
The same unfounded fears have spurred legislation prohibiting the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms ATFfromreleasingsing trace data to identify straw purchases of guns and study, in a macro sense, how guns get in the hands of criminals.
It has been enough to spur legislation.
Such concerns helped spur legislation to provide for the dialysis of all who qualified medically.
He lacks the capacity to spur legislation that would lift the economy by Election Day; significant new victories in Congress are highly improbable before then, and economic dividends would not come fast enough to persuade swing voters anyway.
Three years after its last attempt to spur legislation that would have empowered the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the marketing of cigarettes, Philip Morris is shopping around the contours of a bill that would, once again, let the agency limit the tobacco industry's reach.
The runaway popularity of the novel spurred national legislation (the Dawes Act of 1887), and also inspired California jurisdictions to name schools, streets, towns and a county after the novel's heroine.
Whether the legislation provides the culture change or the culture change spurs the legislation isn't clear.
