Sentence examples for spurring debate from inspiring English sources

Grockit joins a host of online education ventures, which are spurring debate over whether students can learn as well – or better – online.

In 2004, a similar Talmudic tempest involved a tiny crustacean known as a copepod, which was discovered swimming in New York City's tap water, spurring debate among the observant about whether it rendered city water unkosher.

In the City of Light, an eternal question is once again spurring debate: Is the stereotype of the brusque Frenchman justified, or do visitors just not understand the French?

A Mormon? Now, with the possible candidacy of Fred D. Thompson, the grandfatherly actor and former Republican senator from Tennessee, whose second wife is almost a quarter-century his junior, comes a less palatable inquiry that is spurring debate in Internet chat rooms, on cable television and on talk radio: Is America ready for a president with a trophy wife?

That has been healthy in terms of spurring debate.

The abstract and the obscure become clear, spurring debate while leading us deeper into our prejudices and predispositions.

In both cases, public policy development generally requires significant public investment, thus spurring debates in the media and in academic communities.

It may, at most, spur debate.

The change has spurred debate within the protest movement.

Museums are supposed to spur debate about historical controversies.

The vacancies are likely to spur debate over the Fed's priorities.