Sentence examples for study was spurred from inspiring English sources

Dr. Seal said the study was spurred in part by an article in The New York Times about troops and veterans who had died apparently from the toxic mixing of prescription medicines.

The study was spurred by a conversation about an untranslated book, says Shahar Ronen, a Microsoft program manager whose Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT) master's thesis formed the basis of the new work.

The study was spurred by findings in Gulf War veterans suggesting that they had suffered short-term neurological problems, such as insomnia and nervousness, after taking the anti-nerve-gas agent pyridostigmine.

The study was spurred by the findings that UK significantly underperforms when compared to peer institutions of similar size.

This study was spurred by our identification of a newly identified recessive mutation that suppresses the SI phenotype of SRK-SCR transformants of the Col-0 accession.

The possibility that Dr. West -- and perhaps other prominent members of the Afro-American studies department here -- would leave was spurred by an uncomfortable meeting in October between Dr. West and Lawrence H. Summers, who became president of the university last year.

In late 2003, when Viking began publishing a landmark series of new translations of "In Search of Lost Time," Mr. Karpeles, 54 — who fell in love with the novel as a high school student in New York and has studied it devotedly through the years — was spurred to action.

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But the authors of the studies, who were spurred to do the work after complaints about special education from black educators and parents at an N.A.A.C.P. conference, said this was the first time the statistics had been examined so widely or so intricately.

Asian studies have been spurred on by the University's presiden Robert Gordon Sproul.

There can be little doubt as to the relevance of the ELSI studies that were spurred by and within the HGP, in terms both of what they accomplished directly and of what they set in motion more broadly for a sociologically minded approach to developments in the life sciences.