Let's be careful: a strong patent system spurs innovation, and innovation creates jobs.
The country songs playing over the restaurant's sound system spurred a lively discussion of Tanya Tucker, and a disagreement over the spelling of Pure Prairie League's song "Amie".
A hyperactive political system spurred public demand for news, and most newspapers formed economic and editorial alliances with a political party.
The tragedy that people witnessed last year in Japan, combined with inadequacies in the country's disaster preparedness system, spurred some of Japan's greatest minds to come up with innovations to deal with future natural catastrophes.
The White House envisions the meeting as the first of a series of international meetings intended to lay the groundwork for a possible overhaul of the rules governing financial markets, in much the way that the conference at Bretton Woods, N.H., in 1944 remade the global financial system — spurred by the Great Depression and World War II.
And every time parliamentarians sought to penny-pinch his project, an adamant Queen Victoria was far from amused.Apart from becoming the model for every other major city in the world, the London sewer system spurred an awareness everywhere of the need to process sewage before discharging it.
This deficiency in the educational system spurred the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) to draft a curriculum on entrepreneurship studies for Nigerian universities in 2004 (Ekpoh and Edet 2011).
The Interstate system spurred not just a great economic expansion, but facilitated the rise of the age of oil consumption; highways are where over 20% of American energy is consumed.
Because the V-belt continuously variable transmission system spurred by permanent magnet (PM) synchronous motor has much unknown nonlinear and time-varying characteristics, the better control performance design for the linear control design is a time consuming procedure.
