Social and political recognition of the scale of the problem, and of its strong links to health inequalities, spurred policy-makers to allocate significant government funding to a nationally coordinated Hepatitis C Action Plan [ 2], with an evidence-gathering and consultation phase followed by a planning and action phase.
"That is politically an extremely powerful development," Mr. Peters said, arguing that it could spur policy changes by both nations.
And celebrity victims have been instrumental in spurring policy change, as when the 1989 stalking and murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer helped inspire anti-stalking laws in California that have since spread across the US.
WASHINGTON — President Obama said Friday that the encouraging report on jobs shows that "we're pointed in the right direction" and that the beginning of the end of the recession should spur policies to avoid a similar calamity for the nation.
A morally demanding duty-based foundation would normally be expected to spur policies and strategies which demonstrate greater social investment which will in turn engender a greater community development.
Barring some breakthroughs — in biofuels, zero-carbon electricity, etc. — that fortuitously arrive (spurred by policy, perhaps or just manna from heaven), my money is with California abandoning the 80% target.
The Obama administration's main school improvement initiative has spurred education policy changes in states across the nation, but it is meeting with some last-minute resistance as the first deadline for applications arrives Tuesday.
The Summit spurred increased policy commitments and $2.6 billion in pledges to increase the accessibility of family planning resources for women around the world.
Rachel Lederman, one of the attorneys in the litigation that spurred the policy changes, had a simple reaction when she saw the news reports on Olsen and the others: "Not again!" The new incident could lead to a new case, she explained.
In Ontario, the death of an infant after 'early' release, combined with pronouncements by the Canadian Paediatric Society, spurred a policy guarantee of a 60-hour LOS [ 12, 13].
It has been the Spurs' policy, when defending against a 3-pointer, to bench the 37-year-old Duncan in favor of a more mobile big man, in this case Boris Diaw.
