Sentence examples for the main spur from inspiring English sources

So, how might they be used?Taiwan is the main spur for China's military modernisation.

Forming a legitimate government should blunt opposition to the occupation, the main spur to the insurgency.

The main spur was NATO's planned eastward expansion, viewed by Russia as a provocation and a betrayal.

The main spur for the town's redevelopment has been the exploitation of petroleum deposits along the coast of the gulf since the 1970s.

Almost all councils have cut their building plans in recent years, notes Alex Morton of Policy Exchange, a think-tank.That leaves central government as the main spur.

But isn't a government-driven attempt to manufacture "cool", well, just the opposite?The main spur for the government is envy at South Korea's outsize popular influence.

After all, one of the main spurs of record sales has always been Christmas or birthdays and you can't unwrap an MP3.

During the Battle of Chattanooga in November, under Grant's overall command, Sherman quickly took his assigned target of Billy Goat Hill at the north end of Missionary Ridge, only to discover that it was not part of the ridge at all, but rather a detached spur separated from the main spine by a rock-strewn ravine.

Son tormented Newport in the first game in Wales - the South Korean was probably the main reason Spurs earned this replay - and he again made a difference in a first half in which Spurs started slowly but ultimately did enough.

On Thursday night, a third incident, a student's hanging a noose from a bookcase in the main library, spurred a large, multicultural mass of chanting and drumming students to occupy the chancellor's office for several hours on Friday and fed a simmering, some say much-needed, debate over race relations.

For equity investors, the growing Chinese economy has been the main draw, helping spur rallies throughout the region this year.