In turn, remittances can spur this development.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weak say, 'I am strong.'

The pacifist Leo Tolstoy, in his novel War and Peace , regarded this pruning and tending of war as cynical.

My shame as a spur, I fled the abyss.

Fixing the housing market could also help spur consumption .

And the recently conducted feasibility study might spur long awaited progress.

Our own generation urgently needs to spur another era of great social change.

Historically, failure to protect against inflation or deflation has helped spur calamitous outcomes.

This would spur trade wars as countries tried to find more demand abroad.

The Westgate attack should spur Kenya s leaders to re think their approach toward Somalia.

Instead, it is becoming apparent that, after a period of epic profits and growth, the financial industry now needs to undergo a period of consolidation and pruning.

In countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines, environmental protest has helped spur political reform.

They might also spur developing countries to do what it takes to join that market.

Much theoretical and empirical research demonstrates that opening trade can spur a country s GDP growth.

Curiously, this finding did not spur much interest, and no similar studies were reported until 2002.

Several regional integration initiatives include efforts to spur the creation of regional banks and settlement schemes.

All of this will invariably spur development and integration of national financial systems and intra regional trade.

Yes, Japan will rebuild, which will undoubtedly spur some type of recovery in its disaster battered economy.

As these retail products start to take shape, they will spur increased activity in the derivative markets.

Higher interest rates can spur consumption if their impact on income outweighs the increased incentive to save.

Stronger financial markets can move savings to where they can do the most to spur economic growth.

India is concerned that these protests could spur violence which could spill over into its own territory.

The proposal that was defeated was not sufficiently targeted at pruning back insolvent banks, but it will almost certainly not be the last word, regardless of how Congress now proceeds.

Olive by products means, in particular, the products derived from olive pruning and the olive products industry and the products resulting from alternative uses of the products of the sector

In turn, this can spur sustainable non farm employment growth in services, agro processing, and small scale manufacturing.

To spur investment, new measures have been undertaken to allow foreign banks to enter the Iranian financial system.

By contrast, a genuinely repressive iron hand would be far likelier to spur a more potent democratic resistance.

Clinton has created a raft of new positions at the State Department to spur outreach to different social segments.

This current session and the forthcoming summit in September are events that should spur on the process of development.

Today s economic silver bullet is an innovation city in Skolkovo, which the government hopes will spur inflows of modern technology.

However, a revolution the way I view it is not a spur of the moment phenomenon that ends shortly thereafter.

Nigeria hosted two landmark summits, on malaria in 2000 and on AIDS in 2001, which were a crucial spur to action.

One would have thought that torture was the result of blunders or unintentional excesses committed on the spur of the moment.

Policymakers espousing debt write downs to spur growth should ask whether they have the political support to recapitalize banks if needed.

Mercantilists, however, view trade as a means of supporting domestic production and employment, and prefer to spur exports rather than imports.

In most European countries, action to spur private investment in local services and transport both large sectors should also be considered.

Merkel and Hollande will discuss the main question how to spur economic growth without increasing public debt on May 15 in Berlin.

Beyond China, the other BRICs Brazil, Russia, and India all face challenges that their policymakers need to meet to spur stronger growth.

For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.

For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

Starting in Kunming in Yunnan Province, it will extend through Myanmar and south to Bangkok, where a spur will traverse Malaysia to Singapore.

Low cost domestic energy could help to lower the trade deficit, spur investment, and decrease America s economic exposure to volatile oil exporting countries.

Greece, Spain, and the others were told all along that these reforms were needed to spur productivity and competitiveness and help revive growth.

So pervasive is the sexual violence aimed at American women soldiers that a group of veterans sued the Pentagon, hoping to spur change.

Why do political elites block reforms that would spur economic growth and development? Because growth and development would undermine their hold on political power.