An optimist might argue that the presence of a talented musician in one's building could act as a motivational tool, spurring on the fledgling pianist or bassoonist to unimagined heights.
The sensors are different from the ones for sweetness, and they prompt the brain to respond, spurring on the athlete.
He credited the competition with Fermilab with spurring on the Europeans.
Spurring on reform should be the main focus of the annual World Economic Forum gathering this week in Davos, Switzerland.
The invasion, she said, "provided an arena for jihad", spurring on UK citizens to resort to terror.
Soon, students in several states were engaged in similar nonviolent sit-ins, spurring on the civil rights movement.
Still, New York's startup growth is palpable, and it appears to be spurring on yet more growth.
But the NSA isn't the only official body that is spurring on digital crime, whether willingly or unwittingly.
All in all, the department has spent more than £60m on literacy programmes, many of them aimed at spurring on the boys.
The happy collision of Mr Powell's desire for broadband competition and Mr Wood's dream of grid reliability is spurring on BPL technology.
Ingestibles could be lifesaving when treating chronic disease (nearly 50% of sufferers don't take medications as prescribed) or spurring on advances in genomics.
