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The protesters, spurred on by a figurehead pro-Western president and four opposition groups, say the government is illegitimate; the opposition won’t enter parliament because of the “falsified elections”.

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The Sheriff’s Department redacted all of their names in its 40-page report, as well as the name of the Los Angeles police officer whose concerns spurred the investigation.

Australia and India had surpluses to sell, and the high prices spurred exports from Brazil.

Thank you to the estimated half-million Mexican nationals and their American-born children spurred to leave this country by federal and local officials during the Great Depression because undocumented immigrants weren’t worthy of economic relief.

“If anything, this pregnancy has spurred me on”, she said.

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

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