Spurred
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The long-festering issue of European policy has
spurred
a fever in the Conservative Party.
Television images of the fall of the Berlin Wall
spurred
revolutionary changes throughout the former Soviet bloc.
While it may not be in any “hurry to displace the US” regionally, this progress has
spurred
a “reawakened sense of destiny” that Lee regards as “an overpowering force.”Lee worries less about the current generation of China’s leaders than he does about the next.
It was this realization that
spurred
Mikhail Gorbachev’s rise to power, as well as support among the leadership for Gorbachev’s reformist policies of perestroika and glasnost.
Moreover, fake social-media posts in which photos of victims of a Myanmar cyclone were presented as images of Muslims butchered in the northeast
spurred
some Muslim activists to threaten northeasterners elsewhere in India in retaliation.
The impediment, it was believed, was on the production side, as gushing returns on oilfield investments
spurred
ever more ambitious exploration.
It did not, however, bring about any progress toward resolving the outstanding issues underlying the dispute between Israel and Hamas, or change the conditions that
spurred
the latest conflict in the first place.
In fact, in all three confrontations since the nineteenth century, it was Russian action, motivated by domestic concerns, that
spurred
European or Western efforts at strategic containment.
The leader who
spurred
these protests is Gurmeet Singh, one of the more prominent of several “godmen,” or self-proclaimed spiritual leaders, who flourish across India.
In fact, Sanusi’s suspension
spurred
a financial-market panic, with the naira plummeting to a record low against the dollar, as foreign investors sold off bonds and equities.
Indeed, while she acknowledged that young men and women have “rebelled” against the established parties, Ahn supposedly
spurred
them to do so through a series of lectures called “Youth Concert.”
Likewise, there is not much evidence that structural reforms have
spurred
Spain’s recovery.
It was this fallout that
spurred
the French counter-terrorist interventions in Mali and the Sahel.
In the last six years, the oil price rose from $77 per barrel in January 2010 to over $100 during 2011-2014, before collapsing to below $40 in the face of overcapacity (created partly by the investment
spurred
by high prices).
Cameron’s desperation to win votes
spurred
him to call a referendum on Britain’s European Union membership, the result of which forced him to resign.
Naji’s case, for example,
spurred
Egyptian writers, artists, and filmmakers to launch a public campaign for greater freedom of creativity and expression.
Perhaps it was that kind of arithmetic that
spurred
Swiss voters to reject the idea overwhelmingly in a referendum earlier this month.
As Barry Eichengreen and Jeffrey Sachs demonstrated in 1984, while abandoning the gold standard had an immediate negative impact, it quickly
spurred
recovery, with the first countries to devalue their currencies escaping depression earlier than others.
This convinced practically everyone that a “big bull” market, possibly lasting a decade, had begun and
spurred
investors to buy stocks at already-high prices.
High demand for oil since 2000 gave OPEC, and Saudi Arabia in particular, significant influence over prices, but it also
spurred
investments in higher-cost production methods in other locales, such as oil sands mining in Canada and ultra-deepwater oil extraction in Brazil.
Meanwhile, the attacks in Europe by ISIS, combined with the mass exodus of Syrian refugees, has
spurred
a new push for a political compromise.
While North Korea does not have the agricultural base that initially
spurred
reforms in China and Vietnam, geographical advantages like natural seaports and rich mineral resources enable it to pursue export-led growth.
As the ocean continues to absorb heat from the atmosphere, large-scale coral bleaching like that which has decimated the Great Barrier Reef – not to mention other destructive phenomena
spurred
by rising temperatures – is likely to become even more frequent and devastating.
This information has
spurred
the Guatemalan government to review the country’s forestry law, and to fund new strategies to control firewood use, prevent unauthorized logging, and encourage families to use alternative energy sources.
Anita Hill’s decision in 1991 not to make anonymous accusations against Clarence Thomas, now a US Supreme Court justice,
spurred
a wave of enforcement of equal-employment-opportunity law.
Recent revelations of the Russian government’s involvement in hacking into the Democratic National Committee’s computer system – just two years after North Korea’s hack of Sony Pictures – has
spurred
a push in boardrooms around the world to tighten their organizations’ cyber security.
After all, low interest rates benefit debtors and hurt creditors, as does the inflation that can be
spurred
by monetary easing.
And it was the argument made by supply-siders who opposed US Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker’s high-interest-rate policy in the early 1980s – an argument that
spurred
President Ronald Reagan to appoint two Fed governors to challenge Volcker in 1985.
A new fiscal compact – and new governments in Greece, Italy, and Spain –
spurred
hope of credible commitment to austerity and structural reform.
These political developments – and they are political, not economic – have
spurred
a process of re-writing, if not dismantling, the existing rules-based world order.
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