Sentence examples for the initial spur from inspiring English sources

To use your metaphor, the initial spur of intent gets the horse going.

When writing the story, were you conscious of a Jamesian intention throughout, or were you happy to let it just be the initial spur?

Being pregnant with her own son in 1988 provides Kay with the initial spur to trace her roots, and the people she meets are very different from her mother's imaginings.

This idea of an individual capable of an act of terrible violence yet also able to write articulately about what they have done fascinates me, and was the initial spur for His Bloody Project.

Being pregnant with her own son in 1988 provides Kay with the initial spur to trace her roots, and the people she meets are very different from her mother's imaginings.

And the initial spur for Occupy Wall Street came from Adbusters, an organisation that spoofs ads and runs anti-consumerist or anti-capitalist campaigns, and which does have a guru – looping back to May '68, its tactics are modelled on Guy Debord's Situationism.

My curiosity about the initial event spurred me to take the risk and attend, even though I was uncertain how the evening would turn out.

When the initial 1.2-mile spur opened in 2009, the press hailed it for its improvement of an extensively blighted corridor populated by lurkers, transforming it from a dumpsite to a linear park.

The initial increase was spurred as investors who sold the euro short, wagering that it would fall, rushed to cover those positions and lock in profits.

The initial investigation was spurred by the 1996 crash of a car carrying, among others, a senior police official, a drug smuggler wanted on murder charges and a pro-government Kurdish militia leader.

Though the sample size is small and the findings may not be statistically significant, the study suggests that ignoring bias in the initial concept phase can spur the generation of higher quality concepts overall.