Sentence examples for spurring progress from inspiring English sources

BESIDES providing something to bet on (see article), competition has the desirable side-effect of spurring progress.

Philanthropic support created and expanded Harvard programs that produce significant scientific research; this work is essential to spurring progress and solving the most complex issues, from climate change to cancer research.

The CAPRI (Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions) and CASP (Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction) experiments have demonstrated the power of community-wide tests of methodology in assessing the current state of the art and spurring progress in the very challenging areas of protein docking and structure prediction.

At other times, it spurs progress.

Mr Gates has helped to spur progress.

Congress is considering several measures that could spur progress a little.

Enthusiasts have spurred progress in sports equipment used in mountain biking, rodeo kayaking, windsurfing and snowboarding.

King said the new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, could help spur progress.

But even when integrating departments of clinicians seems unrealistic, strategically chosen performance measures can spur progress.

A simple goal, like "Write down five topic sentences," can spur progress that keeps you on track toward completing the larger project.

Although Mr. Swire said he hoped to spur progress, for the moment Do Not Track browser settings have no more significance than emoticons.