That comment, more than anything, spurred Harry to fight harder against the clinging drowsiness.

Her comments caught foreign exchange markets by surprise and spurred a dollar selloff late in the European trading day.

It was the biggest insult I've ever received, but I now realize he did me a big favor because his comment spurred me to work harder.

Mr. Tietmeyer's comments also spurred speculation that the German central bank, the Bundesbank, would lower interest rates at its policy meeting on Thursday.

The comment spurred a long discussion of all those Ms. Van Epps had helped.

'You're looking well, Lillias,' he said conversationally, knowing that a comment like that would spur her to new heights.

The comment spurred sterling purchases in American trading and late in New York, a pound was quoted at $1.6955, compared with $1.6945 on Friday.

Her comment spurred the board, the home's director.

However, Davydov's comments spurred Tchaikovsky to reuse the sketches instead of totally writing them off.

This comment spurred accusations on Internet bulletin boards that the company's preferential export policies was because it thought Chinese lives were cheaper than foreigners'.