Plants that form rootstocks can be spurred to regrowth after several years through tillage. |
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This spurred him to work on lasers, a necessary piece of equipment for his measurement. |
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The listing spurred efforts to protect and restore habitat and to breed and reintroduce the species. |
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He reached around me, grasping the horse's reins, and spurred the creature into a gallop. |
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As if spurred on by this, Peebles upped the ante, taking two consecutive strikes against the head. |
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Perhaps spurred by the era of Republican dominance and a reassertive ruling class, historians have given new attention to the plantocracy. |
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But surging goatgrass and declining rainfall combined to confound the plan and spurred him to look for a new spring crop. |
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These startling revelations spurred the Army's inspector general to launch an investigation to determine the facts. |
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Last year's disappointment at failing to reach the final of the 400m has spurred him to greater effort. |
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This, in turn, has spurred controversy concerning the extent to which transposable elements contribute to host evolution. |
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Each year millions of smokers attempt to quit en masse, spurred on by the annual health awareness campaign. |
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To their credit, many in the neighborhood, both black and white, were spurred to action. |
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She said it was the very happiness and stability of her upbringing that spurred her to investigate her personal history. |
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This conquest through biocontrol has spurred the search for other insects to match the range of climates where the water hyacinth thrives. |
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Environmental and safety concerns have spurred opposition in some coastal communities. |
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The incident on the pilot boat spurred harbour bosses to serve an injunction on the striking boatmen, preventing them from a repeat protest. |
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The battles between the Rock and the Cobra spurred the fascination of the public. |
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Croft stuffed the letter back in his pocket and, in ill humour, mounted up and spurred his horse back to Town. |
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The zygomorphic, pentamerous and spurred flowers are approximately 15 x 12 mm in diameter. |
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The players were spurred on and in the remaining 16 minutes displayed tremendous aggression in their approach for a goal clincher. |
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Without another thought, they spurred their horses forward as shouts erupted in the air and there was the clash of metal against metal. |
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The corruption allegations have spurred public protests and mounting clamor for his immediate resignation. |
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Indignant, she turned away, but he evidently took this as a sign of encouragement and spurred his horse forward to ride by her side. |
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As he spurred his horse forward to catch up with his brothers, Ben said a silent prayer that his words would prove to be true. |
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With this, they spurred their horses on again and continued towards their destination. |
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Then he leapt into the saddle and spurred the horse to a gallop, and with a wave of his hand, he was gone. |
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Mrs. Burns-Cooper, spurred by her mother-in-law, escalates the attack by criticizing Maud Martha's potato parings as too thick. |
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It was this desire for excitement that spurred Kevin to leave his job as an accountant after three years to become a professional actor. |
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The fact that her second chance was costing her parents money spurred her on. |
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The latest surge in house-price inflation has been spurred by the lowest mortgage rates for 40 years. |
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This problem is acute in Nevada, where the cycle of fire disturbance has spurred the invasive cheat grass to alter range and wildlife habitats. |
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However, it was a sudden dip in the dollar's value that spurred speculative activity. |
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Once again, Middle Britain is mortgaged to the hilt, spurred by the lowest interest rates in 38 years. |
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Only recently has there been a revival of Cham national pride, spurred on by governmental promises of ethnic freedom. |
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Now there was no plan driven by aught but fear and he spurred his horse northward, to the only place he knew as safety. |
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So the hostler cracked his whip, spurred on the lead horse on which he was seated, and the carriage splashed into the estuary. |
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It spurred students and workers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America to oppose the military strongmen, dictators and demagogues in their countries. |
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Apparently fearful of public opprobrium, companies have been spurred to reduce toxic emissions on their own. |
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They were in their early twenties, trying to find themselves, spurred on by feelings of omnipotence. |
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As Bradsher himself notes, the advent of theft-proof auto locks spurred a rise in carjackings. |
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The fruits of the showy stickseed are spurred and covered with stout hairs that cling to the hair and bodies of animal. |
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His can-do attitude spurred him on and he took part-time work to get by while continuing to write songs. |
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The plant is compact and deciduous, with rich bronze-red in both new and autumn leaves, and spurred white flowers like little bells. |
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These columbines have bell-shaped flowers, spurred petals, and self-coloured tepals. |
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She glimpsed a spurred fin on its back and a ridged tail before it vanished into the hole dug by its claws. |
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Table 9 shows the number of spurred species in various families and subfamilies of gallinaceous birds. |
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The wooden sidewalks suddenly overflowed with clogs, sabots, and other, spurred footwear. |
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He's standing on the corner in spurred cowboy boots and a hand-painted Stetson, just a-strumming and a-singing. |
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The intense arguments for and against the concept of spontaneous generation spurred on the developments in the field. |
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The experience was a defining moment that spurred the imagination of the business students. |
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This spurred the interest in me to design a prototype spirit level to measure slope angles. |
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The crowds were cheering insanely now, spurred onwards by the exultant actions of the boys, jumping around excitedly. |
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Always in these movies the defendant looks cooked, until a last minute witness shows up at the nick, spurred on by ingenious detective work. |
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Their reasons for emigrating in the first place were mostly economic and the tales of fortunes to be made abroad spurred them on. |
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His obsession with clocks spurred him to buy a job lot of returned timepieces from Ikea, which he has transformed into an art installation. |
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So I think that spurred me even more into helping those less advantaged than me. |
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This spurred construction of apartment buildings with several flats per floor. |
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We had a bit of a kick up the backside at half time, which we deserved, and that spurred us on. |
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The development of electrodialysis provided a cost-effective way to desalt brackish water and spurred considerable interest in this area. |
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These animals also have spurred heels, but these appear to be a feature of both sexes in the young, the females losing them as they mature. |
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Has digitization spurred the kind of creativity in popular music that vinyl spurred? |
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The release of Oasis' newie spurred me into pulling out Cheap Trick's eponymous 1997 release on Red Ant for a July dog trek. |
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And to give him his due, Monty had the good grace to admit the article had spurred him on to prove he could still win at the highest level. |
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The goal spurred the home side on, and cheered by a good sized crowd they looked the more likely to score. |
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Concentrated and briary, it is spurred on by the 20 per cent grenache used in the blend. |
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The glorification of such private diplomatic acts spurred the employment of experts in foreign cultures, languages and intelligence. |
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Incensed by his insensitivity and spurred onward by the events earlier in the evening, Lucy's eyes smoldered with resentment. |
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Still, spurred on by my, as yet unfulfilled artistic creativity, I'm off to night school to learn to be a sculptor. |
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You will, however, be spurred to look at a variety of artworks and art periods with fresh eyes. |
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It spurred talk of a neighborhood watch, a farmer's market and a communitywide garage sale. |
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And the specter of student loans spurred graduates to take lucrative jobs rather than pursue avocations. |
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Arun seized the bowl and bolted the cold food himself, spurred both by hope and the fledgling's panting breaths. |
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He had a great respect and affection for the police, which his daughter said spurred his interest in working as a crossing guard. |
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The spurred yellow-green buds rise, then burst open above 2-to 3-foot pillows of deeply scalloped blue-green foliage. |
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Although she did not found the hospice movement, her work spurred its development. |
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I knew him, and well enough to understand both his credo and the spirit that spurred him on as a musical creator. |
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The dramatic hair loss is caused by mange, a condition spurred by an outbreak of mites. |
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Competition between two national political parties beginning in 1828 spurred the development of new, partisan newspapers. |
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The study was spurred by previous observations of feminization in estuarine fish, particularly the flounder, a common flatfish, Matthiessen said. |
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The debate over this separation spurred the introduction of forestry in Sweden. |
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Nor have lower interest rates spurred corporations to invest in new projects. |
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It was sheer determination which spurred her on to become the first Scotswoman to reach the summit last week. |
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The same gritty determination of Corsican folk, which spurred Napoleon to expand France's empire, can be found in Spinetta. |
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He was spurred by discovering that he had prostate cancer, which was completely cured because he sought medical help straight away. |
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The arrival of the railroad in the late 1800s also spurred growth. |
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The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness. |
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Anger about Citizens United has spurred a movement to amend the Constitution to reverse the opinion. |
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But thankfully, spurred in large part by social media, the world is finally addressing this atrocity. |
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Take James Carville, who, swigging Coc' Cola and playing the mad Cajun, spurred buttermilk-biscuit glamour to new heights. |
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They are spurred on by big oil companies like BP and the British biofuel giant D1 Oils, which are investing millions of dollars in jatropha cultivation. |
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Nor was it ignorance that spurred him to fashion numerous additional devices that ensured his plague picture would kindle its audience's most painful passions. |
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The number of women taking up knitting has doubled in the past few years, spurred not just by the desire to make something snugly for their family, but for others too. |
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The next moment his loud shout rose over the din of battle, and swinging his hat over his head for a banner to those who pressed after, he spurred against the flying enemy. |
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Public readings were an esteemed but ancillary activity, something an established poet might do spurred by vanity, ambition, or a shortage of funds. |
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King Zog tried to reduce his country's economic and military dependence on Italy, but on 7 April 1939 Mussolini, spurred by Hitler's annexationist policies, invaded Albania. |
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Arrowhead types include those with round shoulders and a swollen tang as well as those with angular, slanting shoulders and bilaterally knobbed or spurred tangs. |
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If you were watching closely, you could even catch the occasional moment when the crowd's woozy sway, spurred on by a few almost clubby backbeats, slid into actual dancing. |
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The 1930s had seen a rapid development in radio navigational techniques, spurred by the need for airlines to maintain schedules despite changeable weather. |
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The Republicans, spurred on by the Tea Party, have taken the approach that they will oppose anything proposed by the President. |
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But at the same time, our massive economic inequality has spurred very little serious and visible thinking about alternatives. |
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On second thought, he realizes that it would have spurred the gossip. |
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Knowing she couldn't read it at the moment, she tucked the volume into one of her own saddlebags and spurred her borrowed mount ahead to keep up with the moving column. |
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Once again the beat boxer spurred on the crowd with his verbal gymnastics. |
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Those anonymous scientists are the same sources who spurred him to report, sensationally but falsely, that the anthrax was likely coming from their government. |
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Her success has spurred her teenage daughters to trim down too. |
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As intended, the new name spurred interest, and by the 1970s, the American shorthairs were fully established as one of the most popular cats at pedigree shows. |
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The Montagnards have been fleeing to Cambodia since February when widespread rural demonstrations over land rights spurred a government crackdown in their homeland. |
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Economic development in ASEAN countries has spurred a rapid growth in motorization and led to a significant worsening of road safety throughout the region. |
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Later, he bitterly parted company with the militants who spurred the great strike of 1951, paving the way for a slightly kinder, gentler face to industrial labour. |
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Uncle Howard spurred his horse into a trot, and Thomas and I followed. |
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She wheeled her horse around, and spurred the stallion into a gallop. |
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Diana took a deep breath and spurred her horse towards the cave. |
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He pulled himself up behind her and she spurred the horse into a gallop. |
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While the process of globalization and the drive to open markets has spurred growth and development in parts of the world, it has also exacerbated existing problems. |
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These trends have revived old debates and spurred new research. |
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Nevertheless, there were times when emotions surfaced, spurred by the sense of imminent danger, and even longtime allies sniped at each other in surprising ways. |
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Otto simply raised a hand in valediction and spurred his horse on. |
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Citing all of the concerns that spurred the back-to-nature movement, Knowles captured national attention when he walked buck naked into the Maine woods. |
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They seemed to have no intention of stopping either and they were only spurred on when the Shadowman started throwing black spheres of corrosive black energy at her. |
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Many horses are dangerous to a spurred rider until they have been trained. |
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The children were eternally running to meet a spurred horseman. |
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The first hen was large and good, and the second was a fair spurred bird. |
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It was this, which Malhi read up on during a family trip to India last year, which spurred on his work. |
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It was the nuggety Troncon who spurred on his forwards, and whose probing runs around the base of the scrum, ruck and maul did so much to unsettle Scotland. |
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Everyone spurred their horses on to try to outrun their pursuer. |
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Lost for words, experiencing an unwelcome and sudden sense of dread, she mounted her own charger and spurred it after the knight, who was riding up to join King Lot. |
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We organised races, and spurred by overweening confidence, tested the crafts' stability by standing on the seats and swaying until tipped into the cold water. |
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First, inevitably, his status as a front-runner has caused Democrats, spurred on by a media that wants a good horse race, to take a much closer look at him. |
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No, the last dictatorships in the United States, which were the police states of Mississippi and Alabama, were taken down through peaceful protest that spurred legislation. |
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It has spurred India to go ahead publicly detonating nuclear devices. |
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Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. |
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This will be spurred by impacts on plankton, the major food source of many fish. |
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This led Easton and others including Robert Steele to argue that the text spurred Bacon's own transformation into an experimentalist. |
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The revival of the Cornish language encouraged a parallel revival of Celtic traditions, which by the 1970s had spurred on Cornish nationalism. |
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His invention, the acidimeter, which made pH measurement fast and accurate, spurred the formation of the company. |
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Initially spurred on by Sukarno himself, Indonesian women had participated actively in the national independence war. |
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The infamous hanging, dimpled and pregnant chads of the 2000 election spurred state legislators to review their laws on counting ballots. |
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However, the interlock system spurred severe backlash from an American public who largely rejected seat belts. |
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A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke. |
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Historians of machine tools often focus on a handful of major industries that most spurred machine tool development. |
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The event was spurred by several events, including economic reforms that addressed an early 1960s economic downturn. |
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In some cases, the development of tort law has spurred lawmakers to create alternative solutions to disputes. |
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Southern cities like Cadiz and Seville expanded rapidly from the commerce and shipbuilding spurred on by the demands of the American colonies. |
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This rural, uncertain life spurred the development of feudalism and the Christianization of Europe. |
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Wealth created during the colonial era spurred the development of New Spanish Baroque. |
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In fact, key advances in Chinese science in the late Ming were spurred by contact with Europe. |
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Yet his ideas penetrated mainstream Chinese thought and spurred new interest in Taoism and Buddhism. |
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Columbus's first voyage in 1492 spurred maritime exploration and, from 1497, a number of explorers headed west. |
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The events in the north spurred the Greeks of the Peloponnese into action and on 17 March 1821 the Maniots declared war on the Ottomans. |
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His rule spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of energetic cultural and intellectual activity within the Western Church. |
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This problem spurred the invention of the regulator to evenly spool the line out and prevent tangling. |
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It was the killing of Cupcake, a border collie mix, in a conibear trap last winter that first spurred the anti-trapping campaign here. |
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The global cooling that occurred during the Pliocene may have spurred on the disappearance of forests and the spread of grasslands and savannas. |
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By the second half of the 19th century, industrialisation spurred renewed growth. |
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These economic difficulties spurred mass emigration, primarily to the Americas, during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. |
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It is possible that Bentham was spurred on to publish after he saw the success of Paley's The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. |
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This combined with a threatened invasion of the Netherlands by France spurred Britain to declare war. |
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The Quebec Act of 1774, similarly intended to win over the loyalty of French Canadians, also spurred resentment among American colonists. |
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The drinking culture and special activities like Octoberfest has further spurred up the demand for alcoholic drinks. |
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They were spurred into action by Captain Cockeye Franz Fischler's plan to ban white fish catches in the North Sea for up to 12 years. |
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The soger spurred up and rid on, but I was mad as furry, and had Zeke 'rested, right off. |
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Still they keep coming, perhaps spurred on by the celebrity status that chefdom has achieved in the past decade. |
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An intermittent drizzle spurred fears that a heavier rain could cause a massive cave-in. |
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Halenia is a herbaceous genus with tetramerous, mostly spurred flowers distributed in high-altitude areas of Asia and the Americas. |
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It is said the compositions spurred reconciliation between the King and Handel. |
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But the recent sale of about 100 longhorns by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has spurred debate about the breed's future in the state. |
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After 10 years of yo-yo dieting, Sharon was spurred to lose weight after seeing a birthday picture of herself. |
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The cross is unique on Dartmoor for having spurred limbs of a type that were popular in the 14th century. |
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These innovations spurred Sheffield's growth as an industrial town, but the loss of some important export markets led to a recession in the late 18th and early 19th century. |
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Sibling rivalry spurred them on, and both achieved some success. |
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The Restoration saw the publication of a number of significant pieces of political and philosophical writing that had been spurred by the actions of the Interregnum. |
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This and other such incidents spurred a mass desertion as more and more officers defected to other countries, leaving a dearth of experienced leadership within the army. |
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Dinosaurs' enduring popularity, in its turn, has resulted in significant public funding for dinosaur science, and has frequently spurred new discoveries. |
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The resiny native shrubs are just as thick here as they were on the burn site, and a century of grazing has spurred the growth of a good amount of brome. |
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We've resolved the issues that caused the generator failures in our Arlington and Fairfax offices and spurred 911 service issues in the wake of the June derecho. |
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We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans,' and spurred his horse into the stream. |
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The commercial expansion of Liverpool, and the increase in stage coach traffic from Chester, also spurred the growth of ferries across the River Mersey. |
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In the 1940s Lima started a period of rapid growth spurred by migration from the Andean region, as rural people sought opportunities for work and education. |
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The decisive success spurred France to enter the war as an ally of the United States, securing the final elements needed for victory over Britain, that of foreign assistance. |
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Despite a series of mostly political setbacks, between 2006 and 2009 the Morales administration has spurred growth higher than at any point in the preceding 30 years. |
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In Japan and the United Kingdom this has spurred the addition of many designer drugs into a newer class of controlled substances known as a temporary class drug. |
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The wealth generated by maritime trade spurred the rise of organized kingdoms on the island, some of which had grown quite powerful by the 17th century. |
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This formulation of popular culture's mode of production as capitalistically rather than artistically spurred carries over to pulp authors in general. |
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National infrastructure including telegraph and transcontinental railroads spurred economic growth and greater settlement and development of the American Old West. |
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The process of Hellenization also spurred trade between the east and west. |
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The empire that grew from Greek conquest, particularly by Alexander the Great, spurred the spread of Greek language, religion, science and philosophy throughout the colonies. |
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And forward spurred his mounture fierce withal, Within his arms longing his foe to strain, Upon whose helm the heavy blow did fall, And bent well-nigh the metal to his brain. |
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Despite an increase in imports, conversion of gray iron, steel and malleable iron applications to ductile iron has spurred growth in the short and long terra. |
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These factors have spurred fox squirrel range expansion and recovery. |
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Wesleyan's decision was partially spurred by its student government association, which called for the campus' three remaining all-male frats to become co-ed. |
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That military transition was additionally spurred by the arrival of the Vikings from the 8th to 10th centuries, giving rise to modern Europe and medieval warfare. |
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In the third, from 1919 to 1930, 21,874 people came directly from Norway, with the peak year in 1927, when 5,103 Norwegians arrived, spurred by severe depression at home. |
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It is probable, but debated, that the Federal Reserve's aggressive policy of quantitative easing spurred the partial recovery in the stock market. |
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The boom in tourism, spurred by growing wealth and leisure time, and by Victoria's example, led to significant urban development of the island's coastal resorts. |
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An oil spill has spurred cleaning works on the beaches of popular resort island Koh Samet in Thailand as the beaches have turned black from the oil slick. |
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The discovery of the Sirikit Oilfield spurred additional exploration in the concession that led to discoveries of smaller but equally significant oilfields. |
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