This week a conclave of treaty-boosters in Vienna is attempting to spur on the foot-draggers.
And to spur on more success stories like the Allen brothers, we've begun to reinvent our energy policy.
Holland, 36, used to spur on his sales force by opening his wallet and waving a credit card, yelling, "We need to be as ubiquitous as Visa!"
Pitino, fresh off his team's 82-76 win in the title game over Michigan on Monday night, was sitting behind the Cardinals bench, trying to spur on the women's team.
So, for example, we've got John Doerr sitting next to me, who has been one of the leading venture capitalists in the innovation economy and helped to spur on the revolution in the computer industry.
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We enter the supermarket with a shopping list, and invariably purchase additional items on impulse, often less healthy foods in part because the supermarket designers know what foods to place in which locations to spur on such purchases.
The market was boosted in recent weeks by a combination of safe-haven buying due to eurozone debt issues, as well as expectations that Fed policy-makers may undertake further action to spur on the U.S. economy as data turned softer than earlier in the year.
The home crowd ramped up the noise level to try to spur Blues on but it seemed to have little effect as their efforts were not reciprocated by the team.
In this, the Presidential Medal of Freedom shall serve to spur me on and to encourage me.
Without a second songwriter to spur him on, Mercer is at the mercy of his own ambition, which seems to ebb and flow.
Mr Tyrie is one of many who suspect that the government intends to stop or minimise its reforms after abolishing the hereditaries, and he wants to spur it on.
It's also got a built-in Fitness Coach application to spur you on during that last mile, so you can fire your insanely expensive personal trainer as well as stop begging your friends to call you up at 27:32 into your daily run.
Heitinger became the fifth man to be sent off in a World Cup final when he pulled back Iniesta on the edge of the area, giving Webb little choice but to hand him a second caution, and that seemed to spur Spain on for a final effort.
The Pacific voyage aboard the 60-foot catamaran is intended to highlight the growing amount of plastic waste in the oceans and to spur public debate on finding ways to turn the waste into a resource.
Although the preferred route for HS2 does not include a dedicated station at Crewe, the line is expected to join a spur on the West Coast mainline to allow high speed trains to stop at the existing station and link up with other services to Liverpool and Preston.
Russia has come to rely on spur-of-the-moment environmental laws and fines as leverage to force Western partners to sell at depressed prices.
Was that something that just occurred to you on the spur of the moment?
The region has learned how to capitalize on its work with water to spur new technologies to treat, conserve, and utilize water.
Some of China's most reactionary netizens bombarded her blog for expressing her dislike of blogging, which served to spur Hung to write on.
The race, which starts with nine laps of Box Hill in the county of Surrey and finishes in the shadows of Buckingham Palace, will see hoards of British cycling fans line the streets in a bid to spur their Tour heroes on to medals.
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But Goodwin's caustic challenges are frequently on the money, and they spur his team on to great achievements.
He called on the U.S. government to spur more hiring with tax legislation focused on private business.
The fundamental economic picture looks like a good one for commodities markets with global economic growth reaccelerating and central banks from Washington to Frankfurt, London and Tokyo embarked on unconventional monetary policy to spur growth.
Audi asked consumers to vote on the ending as a way to spur early interest and get them involved.
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Right now, though, it appears Coke's move could spur more investors to gag on their Pepsi.
These words would later spur him on to prove people like this wrong.
Do you suppose that a lavish bonus could spur her on to butter?
Crosas said the criticism the team had received this season could in fact spur them on to greater things.
The invitation seemed to come rather on the spur of the moment when he bumped into me in the hall one day.
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