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But so far it's unclear whether China's central government is ready to roll out consumer incentives to spur sales of electric cars.

His brothers said it was done on the spur of the moment, but his colleagues at al-Baghdadia said he had been planning it for months.

And that change taught me that letting loose and giving in to a spur-of-the-moment1 idea is what life is all about.

Mr Obama's subsidies for green technology fattened the bottom line of a few chosen firms but did very little to spur jobs.

If the timing's right, I'm ready to go out with a guy spur-of-the-moment.

I do not know, " he said aloud. " I never had a bone spur.

Colonel: Ahh. . . it's just not possible Poirot. Nobody could think all that up all by himself on the spur of the moment.

With Treasurys yielding only 3%, it's not clear how much more demand the Fed will spur by getting them down to, say, 2. 5%.

His impending suicide was premeditated and not a spur-of-the-moment thing as he'd tried to have himself believe.

They may decide to go for a weekend in Thailand on the spur of the moment, and the personal assistant has to make it happen.

To BE good, a musician had not only to rememBEr his part but also to BE able to invent new variations on the spur of the moment.

The Federal Reserve and the Bank of England are trying to push down borrowing costs to spur faster growth.

Eg. He got the air form Juliet just because he asked her to marry him on the spur of the moment.

Scarce and expensive skilled labour is often a spur to invention.

Carlisle wasn't considering age too intently, as each of these decisions was spur-of-the-moment as well as life-or-death.

The release of a long-awaited U. S. government plan to rid bank balance sheets of money-losing "toxic" assets has also been a big spur.

So Groundhog Day makes a good yearly spur to ask: "What would my perfect day be? " It might be easier than you think to arrange it.

You sometimes act before you think and do things on the spur of the moment, and that sometimes gets you into trouble.

Though the U. S. is still burdened with a large deficit, officials argue that its ambitious stimulus program has helped spur growth.

He had not planned to take the trip; he just went on the spur of the moment.

In the next few weeks, the Federal Reserve is expected to inject vast sums of money into the economy in another attempt to spur growth.

moreover, so insistent was the spur within me that to stop my poetic adventure was a matter of sheer impossibility.

The band you went to see on that wet Tuesday after work on the spur of the moment is likely to be literally incomparable.

What information should my utility company (or others) be sharing with me that will spur me to use less energy?

We know someone who recently made a spur-of-the-moment stop at an animal shelter and walked out a few minutes later with a new dog.

One of the best way to spur employees to higher levels of performance is to show them that doing so needs to promotions within the company.

The specter of every country trying to devalue more than competitors to spur exports stirs frightening images of the Great Depression.

They had no one who came up with wacko ideas on the spur of the moment, and no one who could keep options open for a while.

Acting on the spur of the moment, he said he'd take the job.

"The rivaling poor Jones, and supplanting him in her affections, added another spur to his pursuit" (Henry Fielding).

On the spur of the moment I decided to loan my sofa and my rug to my niece who was moving to a larger home.

Once you take the train to go halfway to A, but suddenly the spur of the moment in the B underground vehicle. Maybe is.

OK. OK. You're convinced me: Buying a puppy on the spur of the moment would be a dumb thing to do.

Is it (A) to help spur the economy, (B) to help homeowners pay their mortgages, (C) to help middle class face financial hardship?

Though quite unprepared , he was nevertheless able to sing a folk song on the spur of the moment .

Because of the better spur control than DDS, the Phase Locked Loop (PLL) frequency synthesis is usually used in frequency agile synthesis.

You know, without the spur of your presence I should never have roused myself to invite them.

Police said the attack wasn't some spur of the moment idea.

But, momentum is everything in sports, and a lackluster win going into a long time away from home is not going to spur momentum.

This was not done on the spur of the moment. It had all been planned by God for our salvation and we can rejoice in it today.

Biden's trip may not have moved Beijing when it comes to currency, but it has at least helped spur a very local rise in consumer spending.

Spur-of-the-moment activities can be fun once in a while.

I ask everyone who works in an office: Come on, could your company organize and execute something this complex on the spur of the moment?

Mr. Bush said the government will purchase equity shares in banks to help institutions unfreeze lending and spur economic growth.

So much federal involvement has helped spur state governments and private industry to make significant investments in the EV sector as well.

Tom had leaped at the sound, like a horse at the spur; but Silver had not winked an eye.

Feedback to subordinates is seldom smooth and continuous; it tends to come in pulses at the spur of adverse events.

Without this we should be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us to seek a more solid means of escaping from it.

Provided global trade continues to expand, industrial firms should be able to push up exports and spur growth, even as the state retrenches.

This small town is Bosnia's outlet to the sea. It is at the end of a tiny spur of land which cuts across Croatia.

The current huge change and destruction of current habitats, I hope, will spur new discussions to restrict this sort of madness destruction.

As if on cue, major central banks cut interest rates in November and December to spur growth and prop up their financial systems.

The other point is to insist, but it is not enough to insist on zero before, so this write up, one as a shared one as a spur myself.

Repetitive practice seems to spur construction of those new connections, even long after the injury.

To grasp the varied during the process and spur, it was necessary to establish an effective means of observation.

A gear having tooth elements that are straight and parallel to its axis is known as a spur gear .

The high frequency induction hardening can't raise the surface microhardness of the cold precision forging spur gear.

Try keeping a picture of your competitors face or company logo on your desk to spur you to new heights.

Eventually, that helped spur economic recoveries by touching off export booms at a time of buoyant demand elsewhere.

Creating content for new platforms has been a spur to innovation and a fresh approach.

A gear have tooth elements that are straight and parallel to its axis is known as a spur gear.

With the economy close to stagnation and the public finances in a parlous state, a spur to demand would be welcome.

Precision forging of spur gear is an important process used for manufacturing complex high-quality components.

Some of huge stone corporation came into view , filled with spur tracks and flat cars, transpierced by docks from the river .

He also told the court that rejection from a woman at work that he had a crush on helped spur the attack.

Efforts to turn the city into a logistics centre will be boosted to spur the service industry, Li said.

The key question is whether Europe's leaders will seize the moment, or fail to capitalize on this major opportunity to spur economic growth?

The way some family business owners look at growth will offer inspiration and spur creativity as you seek answers for your own company.

'They're all saying, 'It's either my way or no way, '' she said, adding she hopes her opinions will spur politicians to mend their ways.

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the United States and China worked effectively through the G-20 to help spur recovery.

Behind the town where I once lived, there was a mountain spur, crowned by the walls of an ancient temple.

On the spur of the moment it reminded him of a gale he had once experienced in the North Pacific.

Moderates within the government had arranged the meeting with the hope that it would spur changes in the management of the public finances.

A strong yuan hurts Chinese exports and may spur the authorities in Beijing, faced with a slowing economy, to intervene.

Doing Business is beginning to be incorporated in academic research and it is probably a modest spur to reform efforts.

A helpful way to break the pattern is to decide never to make a decision on the spur of the moment.

In a statement announcing the donation, Mr. Lee said he hopes it will spur more of the nation's wealthy to do the same.

The Federal Reserve's decision to spur the economy with a $600 billion round of bond buying was among the most controversial in its history.

The Guardian has learned that Africa's intervention was not a spur of the moment decision by negotiators.

A few days after the funeral, my dad and I played golf on Spur's hardscrabble course.

But it does nothing specific to give the sluggish economy a lift or to spur job creation.

Noel decided to marry Ryan on the spur of the moment. She felt regretful later.

Petals unequal, posterior ones straight and small, anterior one extended into a lip, with a short spur at base.

She believes such a visit will further increase mutual understanding and spur mutually beneficial cooperation.

A pair of spur gears for mounting on parallel shafts are the most common type of gears, which have straight teeth.

A universal vaccine would have to spur an immune system attack on part of the influenza virus that does not vary from strain to strain.

Even more striking is the claim made by the Duke researchers that patent exclusivity is not necessary to spur innovation in genetic testing.

We love the "highly effective" makeshift silencers which movie characters cobble together on the spur of the moment.

Mr Schwarzenegger's lazy governorship could come to be seen not as the great missed opportunity, but as the spur for reform.

With a keen sense of responsibility and democracy, people will spur social progress.

The company has aimed the software at netbooks and smartphones in a bid to spur demand for its Atom mobile device chip.

Mr Nelson said the rising costs in the industry would spur a "transition" in operating models.

He was concerned that the Spur Line might not be able to alleviate the overcrowding problem at Lo Wu Station.

Tax competition among countries should be a win-win policy, as it restrains governments and helps spur global economic growth.

Some have accused the Fed of trying to weaken the dollar to spur U. S. exports.

When the young man heard that his friend was going to the city, he decided, on the spur of the moment, to accompany him.

It has also been rapidly opening new airports to help spur economic development and satisfy surging demand.

Jennifer: I don't know. We were just chatting when, on the spur of the moment, he asked me out.

Analysts think that Microsoft will push up the release date to later this year to help spur PC sales around the holiday season.

But even the threat of it should spur innovation, and perhaps deliver to business students that most elusive of prizes: value for money.

I decided to go to the party on the spur of the moment, so I threw on some clothes and left.

She never found it hard to believe that an opponent had as high a motive as her own and needed upon her difficult road no spur of hate.

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Fumes can irritate the eyes and throat or spur headache, nausea, and flu-like symptoms.

He attempted to wake Larry to spur him into action, but all the feline could manage was to open one eye and duly didn't budge an inch.

It remains to be seen if Klinsmann opts to start with Ballack, but even his presence on the bench will act as a spur for the hosts.

he did , however , spur his horse into a gallop in the direction of tushins battery.

"If someone is impulsive, they usually come up with great, spur-of-the-moment ideas, " Sherburne says.

Ford spokesman Wes Sherwood declined to say whether the Volt incident will spur additional testing on the Focus.

I am only learning about emotional eating and it's making a difference and I hope this article will spur you on to look into this as well.

The emergence of these new forces will pose a challenge to the old scientists, engineers, professors and teachers and spur them on.

And just as the iPod has killed the album, so the Kindle might, in time, spur a revival of the short story.

Many patients with knee OA, Liu Waner trying to spur blunt pain, the result is just the opposite.

Seen from this perspective, the new law is as much a consequence of China's emerging labour movement as it is a spur for it.

To impel as if with a spur ; urge on.

Dubai's financial centre would do most service to the Middle East as a regional source of cheap capital and a spur to good governance.

To start a family is indeed a serious matter ; it is not a spur-of the-moment decision.

Viktor Khristenko, Russian energy minister, said the spur line to China should be operational by late 2008.

They confessed that they did not rob that night mentally prepared is spur of the moment.

However, they would frequently invent new rhymes on the spur of the moment, responding to both the audience and each other.

To the degree that you can make a person's work meaningful to him, to that degree you will spur him to realize his own highest potential.

their aim is to spur the reader's own thinking by presenting a candid, uncensored view of a few delicate issues.

Mourinho also denied that his comments in the build-up to the game had provided a spur for Liverpool.

The complex is called the Vela Molecular Cloud Ridge, and may form part of the edge of the Orion spiral arm spur in the Milky Way galaxy.

all of these applications will enhance the quality of life and spur economic growth. Over half of the U.

Great mountains help subdue the winds; a spur of the Gulf Stream and part of the Japan Current temper the frigid airs of this polar region.

Although they call themselves a "scientific oddity , " the variety of skills among the ITRI staff is a spur to creativity.

Rebalancing at home will also raise the cost of domestic production and spur more investment abroad, not just in Asia, but further afield.

The combination of the court ruling and yesterday's decision may spur other industries to hire lawyers and file similar complaints.

Most women love to have fun and live on the spur of the moment.

An informal meeting usually takes place on the spur of the moment to discuss a special point.

Once the economy improves enough to spur substantial job creation, work should return in almost all industries.

The demand for this line would depend on how quickly the additional capacity provided by the Spur Line would be taken up.

Old Bacot says when he makes a speech he always trusts to the spur of the moment .

Many shops cut prices just before Christmas in an attempt to spur sales.

It is unclear whether the court order will spur parliamentarians to meet for more than a perfunctory session.

Since businesses are not investing enough in new goods, he said, there'll be fewer resources in the future to spur growth.

The furious rows that divide them are a blow to their credibility, but may prove to be a spur to creativity.

As a further spur to investment in Asia, in much of the region salaries are likely to be roughly on a par with those in China.

The finding will likely spur patients with the condition to seek treatment with drugs used to fight HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Banks haven't been lending this money freely so far, but once they start, it could spur economic activity and send prices rising.

Even as they celebrate their progress, Latin America's politicians should take it as a spur to further action.

Spur blight affects fruiting laterals, especially on the lower portion of canes where conditions are more favorable for disease development.

Add the torn kaffir lime leaves and red spur chilli before turning off the heat.

The market entry of domestic banks and insurers is expected to spur industry consolidation in the next few months.

Perhaps the crisis might be a spur to the federalist impulse, but nobody can count on that.

The work lays theoretical foundation for the selection of immersion depth and operation parameters optimization of the spur gearbox.

Their aim was to spur passage of legislation Michigan lawmakers are debating to increase the state's share of school funding.

States that international community should bolster proven microfinance programs to spur local-level entrepreneurship throughout the country.

British ministers plan to use the UK annual budget this month to clarify how monetary policy can be used to spur economic growth.

Nevertheless, the government remains terrified of sex in terms of its potential as a spur for unrest.

The Olympic Creed and Motto are meant to spur the athletes to embrace the Olympic Spirit and perform to the best of their ablities.

This book is a spur to the child 's intellect and imagination.

Use the following list for spur-of-the-moment adventure seeds involving arcane spell casters.

Richard is very strict and his class is boring. I had his class on the spur of the moment last semester.

Only fear will spur investors to price risks better and get them to put more effort into monitoring their counterparties.

The procession marched towards Central amid rows of onlookers, many of whom joined the march on the spur of the moment.

There's no way of even making a reasonable guess as to how the tablets might spur sales of either digital products or physical goods.

Some of the biggest cities, like Shanghai, have tried to make small tweaks in the policy to spur more births.

The Asat test will also likely spur formation of a more robust military strategy focused on China.

Far away on the last spur, there was a glittering obelisk .

Crises spur these on; they will make old emotions from childhood come to the surface, perhaps even memories from before this lifetime.

Emerging-market nations have bristled at the Fed's move to spur the U. S. economy by increasing the U. S. money supply.

All this should provide a spur tothewaste industryandspeedthe adoption of new technology.

But investors say the restrictions appear to be relaxing as Chinese policymakers urge banks to lend to spur economic growth.

down to the regular, spur-of-the-moment answering of people's cell phones on the red carpet. . .

Rebuilding might spur a pick-up in Japanese growth.

But they failed to reach consensus on what's going to spur job growth and prevent another global economic meltdown.

Spur gear (SGA) or compound bevel gear (BGA) attachments can be provided in any position shown in Figure 1.

Foreign businesses have been encouraged by Mr Najib's promises to liberalise the broader economy, spur innovation and raise productivity.

Higher stock prices have raised household wealth, which should spur spending and offset some of the damage of lower home values.

'Production cuts can be expected to spur layoffs in manufacturing and feed into labor market deterioration, ' it said.

These aspects will mobilize the masses and spur political change over issues of the poor and needy.

He is hoping rumours of a tax increase at the end of this year will spur another rally.

A teaspoon of cayenne pepper is said to spur blood flow and add warmth to the body.

Also featured on the Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed China is an exclusive badge and display case for the ignition key.

The aim of this agreement is to spur economic growth around the world.

On the spur of the moment , he broke up with his girlfriend .

Irvin of American Rivers and other supporters hope the dams' removal will spur other projects around the country.

But some researchers feel the data are now convincing enough to spur large policy changes.

But a strongly enforced open-access mandate for state- and charity-funded research would spur them to do more.

By giving inventors and innovators the exclusive rights to their creations for a certain time, patents spur innovation.

Surgical approaches based upon recent anatomic studies of the periprostatic neuroanatomy continue to spur both advances and debate.

This will boost China's internal market as well as trade with its Asian neighbors, and will spur the development of an Asian economic bloc.

For some Muslim states, the spur to proliferate might be Israel, for others Iran.

The manager said that the team's win on Saturday would be a spur to even greater effort this season.

Some countries, including Singapore, Taiwan, Finland and China, are pursuing policies that are explicitly designed to spur innovation.

S. recession. The Bush administration has also renewed calls for a swift economic-stimulus package to spur growth.

If anything, it may spur more buying as investors do not want to be left behind.

Lord Mandelson wants the regional-development agencies to set out how universities in their areas can do more to spur growth.

Her photography is never spur-of-the-moment, never urgent.

The spur for innovation comes from more sophisticated foreign customers, who are "willing to sit down and discuss ideas" .

Frequent weight-bearing or activity, especially the neck, waist, hip, knee and other joints, can be a bone spur formation.

The PLA's inability to locate the ships was a source of great embarrassment that helped spur China's satellite programme.

Why don't they believe that the dynamism of capitalism will spur it to find ways to make do in a world of reduced carbon emissions?

I hope I packed everything, this trip is so spur of the moment.

I hate those hackneyed information, more hate those on the spur of the moment to play " thanksgiving" .

Senior Italian figures are also pressing for more fundamental changes to free up a moribund economy and spur growth.

and Catherine's sincere commendations acted as a spur to his industry.

Meanwhile, to spur growth, the Federal Reserve has effectively been printing new money, diluting the value of each existing buck.

Only eight of 52 analysts said the Fed should do more now to spur growth.

Sen. Obama called for government spending to spur growth, including an energy-technology investment program and infrastructure financing.

Widen the democratic participation, communication and harmony. Condense consensus, and spur the inside drive and active achievement.

U. S. interest rates are low because the Fed is trying to spur borrowing.

Credentials: Winter was a key architect of the triangle offense, which helped spur 11 NBA titles with Lakers Coach Phil Jackson.

If QE was meant to spur employment, or breathe life into the US housing market, it has yet to work.

Harmonic enlargement can be minished or avoided by properly choosing the reactance rate of reactor in the spur track of filters .

connective swollen and usually not extended at base into a spur.

Petals 5, erect to subject, usually smaller than sepals, base usually prolonged into a spur.

The flow patterns close to the non-submerged spur dikes are discussed on the basis of flume experiment.

Used part of the rotor pump is a simple spur gear drive motor, electric screw fixation using pin.

So America has joined with nations around the world to spur growth, and the renewed demand that could restart job creation.

Offering a monthly Apple TV subscription could spur demand and be a natural evolution from Apple's existing download service.

The drugs work by blocking an enzyme called factor 10a that helps spur the production of a crucial clot-promoting protein called thrombin.

Tremendous financial benefit is available if price changes are executed at the right time and deep enough to spur demand.

Still others seek to encourage businesses to stay in the United States and spur job growth.

One spur: a continuing decline in the number of new drug approvals by large pharmaceutical companies.

This article describes an effective method to set up the three-dimensional model for spur gear, helical gear by CAXA.

Paw prints were found in a number of places, and puma spur stinging on the bush [ was found clinging to bushes ].

It would provide the LSE with greater liquidity, and would appeal to users if both exchanges can cut fees and spur cross-border trading.

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has ordered his cabinet to draw up fresh stimulus measures in a bid to spur economic growth.

Under this strategy, sometimes called "export fetishism" , countries spur sales abroad, often by keeping their currencies cheap.

Rising wages, meanwhile, achieve real effective currency appreciation, which could serve to spur domestic consumption.

Part of the goal of quantitative easing is to spur investment through lower interest rates.

ECB officials had hoped Mr. Trichet's public rejection of the nuclear option would spur governments to do just that.

It hopes that would spur more investment and spending and liven up the recovery.

That's why one civil rights organization says it is "declaring a war" on black unemployment with a plan to spur job creation.

More options command located in the lower-right corner of the Design tab, the area with other options for spur gears design opens.

When auto sales began slowing in June, dealers started to offer more generous discounts and incentives to spur sales of new vehicles.

Spur of the moment. Sorry I missed your birthday.

As Mr Takats points out, overstretched pension systems may spur retired people to run down their assets more aggressively than expected.

The entry of cash-rich South Korean and Taiwanese companies could also spur consolidation in a fragmented sector.

A slowing US economy might be the spur other economies need to sustain domestic-led growth, but 2007 might be too soon.

We decided to go to Las Vegas on the spur of the moment.

Workers are taking advantage of the SPUR programme to upgrade their skills and retrain for new fields.

Small volume, small step, low spur levels and intellectual measurement are high lights of this module.

spur saccate, very short, slightly longer than basal auricles of sepals or not.

Since the 1960s, the easy availability of reliable contraception has helped to spur a revolution in sexual mores.

That year the Chinese government introduced two extra week-long public holidays, known as "golden weeks, " to spur domestic travel.

And the business tax break will, I believe, do hardly anything to spur investment given the excess capacity businesses already have.

Corona lobes shorter than anthers, base with an erect, hook like dorsal spur, apex bluntly acute.

Of course, among close friends it is very common to issue spur of the moment invitations.

an impromptu speech; a spur-of-the-moment party.

To spur their interest, Mr Huhne proposes to offer long-term contracts guaranteeing the price of nuclear-generated electricity.

They all judgment made by generation unit to contribution overload spur track, and numerical value sensitivity and quotation graph.

Ma responded to the criticism by insisting he had intended to spur a greater familiarity of traditional characters within China.

Rather, it is designed to be unpalatable, to spur responsible, balanced deficit reduction and avoid misguided cuts to our security.

If QE cannot spur private demand on its own, combining it with looser fiscal policy may help.

The euro was supposed to spur reform by preventing governments from restoring competitiveness by devaluing their currencies.