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While Russia has traditionally seen price increases spurred on by summer travelling and oil refinery maintenance, the drone strikes are exacerbating it.

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Many will argue with their conclusions, but their impeccable research and clear-cut cause-and-effect scenarios might at least spur actionable change.

Officials reasoned it would be best to install when no one was living there and that its completion could spur the return of homes and businesses.

Cooper, who was appointed to the role earlier this month, also said the UK's decision to recognise Palestinian statehood should be a "spur, not a substitute for action".

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Judge Lord Armstrong told him: "It was not a spontaneous event which happened on the spur of the moment, it was in effect an execution."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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