We are lucky enough to live at a time in which a furious wave of innovation is breaking across the cities of the global south, spurred on both by the blistering pace of urbanisation, and by the rising popular demand for access to high-quality infrastructure that follows in its wake.
Apart from Clifford Chance, no British firm has so far managed to establish a significant New York practice.Yanks abroadA few New York firms outside the circle have, however, been pursuing an international strategy, spurred on both by the needs of their increasingly globalised clients and by growing competition from the British.
There are also claims that, spurred on both by centuries of meticulous observations and awareness of the high price of failure (legend tells of "drunk astronomers" Ho and Hi, executed by the emperor in 2136BC for not anticipating the first recorded eclipse), the Chinese began correctly forecasting eclipses as long as 2,000 years ago.
So, inspired by the trip down Hampstead's memory lane and spurred on by both the Dojo and Penguin's recent A Million Penguins WikiNovel experiment, I thought the talented gamesbloggers could create a text adventure ourselves, set in modern day, with modern themes, without an orc in sight.
Additionally, Dickson's introductory remarks refer to a toast delivered by President Obama in February, and to the rise of international "mass toasting" events, spurred on by both modern social networking Web sites and the decidedly timeless desire to imbibe and swear oaths.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics, life sciences and other STEM professions are expected to grow at a faster rate than non-STEM professions (U.S. Department of Labor, 2007), spurred on by both the fast pace of technological innovations and the changing demographics of the U.S. population (Stine and Matthews, 2009).
Legislators from both parties, spurred on by an unusual coalition of religious leaders and civil libertarians, responded by drafting the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which President Clinton signed into law, in 1993.
The Australian captain Mark Taylor was not a fan of the innovation: "... out there, on the field there was an ultra-competitive attitude by blokes of both teams, spurred on by the crows who were predominately barracking for against Australia and supporting the underdog Australia A, who were pepped up and firing.
This one, obviously, was spurred on by Trump.
We felt really spurred on afterwards".
In America two-fifths of all "social payments" are made by the private sector through employers' pension contributions and health plans both spurred on by tax breaks that go mainly to middle-income Americans.When you look at overall public spending, the gap widens.
