The persistent violence is taking place as the United States military is drawing down its forces, inevitably spurring reflections on the legacy of the conflict here and the conditions the Americans are leaving behind.
"This survey should spur reflection on our conduct in combat," Gen. David H. Petraeus said in a letter to the troops.
Although the industry surely exaggerates the risk, guerrilla actions are not the safest or best way to spur reflection on how we treat animals.
"Culture Crash" poses big questions about art, spurs reflection on whether there's a connection between a society's self-consciousness and specific support of the arts and of the artists, and the well-being of the arts themselves.
The death of revered South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela has spurred reflection on the global state of human rights in the years since his transformation from political prisoner to president and elder statesman.
The show spurred reflections on how widespread the two Americans' influence – and that of fellow citizens Keith Jarrett, McCoy Tyner and Brad Mehldau – has been on jazz piano methods over the past 40 years.
But Father Joerger said that this period of financial crisis — unrelated, he says, to any of the sexual assault lawsuits that have dogged the Catholic clergy in recent years — has spurred deeper reflection within the community.
So when Ms. Herseth Sandlin recently announced that she would not run, it not only upended Democratic plans but spurred deeper reflection over exactly what kind of candidate should represent the party — one who adheres to the party's core principles or someone moderate, even conservative, enough to appeal to more voters?
But the recent frenzy over accepting or rejecting Syrian (and other Muslim) refugees in the U.S. has at least spurred some reflection on how Jewish refugees were also viewed with suspicion as "the other" during World War II, providing a modicum of counter-balance to the fear-mongering that has jerked much of American society to the right like a speeding car overtaken by a crazed drunkard.
Within an emergent field such as learning analytics, this seems crucial to spur meta-reflection on the development of the professional discourse.
