Sentence examples for were spurred into from inspiring English sources

· Kalin said the band hadn't been politically minded before the protests began, but were spurred into action by what they saw as electoral fraud.

Tokiwadaira residents were spurred into action five years ago after the decayed corpse of an elderly man was found inside his flat three years after his death.

Police were spurred into action after three crashes involving heavy vehicles in New South Wales on January 15 and 16 killed five people.

Some participants said that they were spurred into action by a paper that appeared in Climatic Change last year, in which Nobelist Paul Crutzen called for geoengineering research (Science, 20 October 2006, p. 401).

The scientific Fellows of the Society were spurred into action by this, and eventually James South established a Charters Committee "with a view to obtaining a supplementary Charter from the Crown", aimed primarily at looking at ways to restrict membership.

To keep those left behind in check, neighbourhood committees have been spurred into action.

Finally, lampooned by his countrymen for his impotence, he was spurred into action.

Her files indicate she was spurred into action in London by her links with Mzingeli.

" While newredlion was spurred into a positively evangelical response: "Out of recession at last!

And perhaps Mr. Giuliani was spurred into action by the diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Howard was spurred into action by a novel written by an American Marxist socialist.