A cappella music attained renewed prominence from the late 1980s onward, spurred by the success of Top 40 recordings by artists such as The Manhattan Transfer, Bobby McFerrin, Huey Lewis and the News, All-4-One, The Nylons, Backstreet Boys and Boyz II Men.

The success of German artillery spurred the first international arms race, against Schneider in France and Armstrong in England.

When, in the wake of Savonarola's morality campaign, Baccio joined the Dominican order as Fra Bartolomeo in 1500 and gave up painting, Albertinelli, beside himself with the loss, would have joined him ; but, spurred by his success in completing an unfinished Last Judgment of Bartolomeo's, he resolved to carry on alone.

It is possible that Bentham was spurred on to publish after he saw the success of Paley ’ s The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy.

During the 1920s, in the wake of Modigliani's career and spurred on by comments by André Salmon crediting hashish and absinthe with the genesis of Modigliani's style, many hopefuls tried to emulate his " success " by embarking on a path of substance abuse and bohemian excess.

Around the mid-1990s, with the success of the big beat-sound exemplified by The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy in the UK, and spurred by the attention from mainstream artists, including Madonna in her collaboration with William Orbit on her album Ray of Light and Australian singer Dannii Minogue with her 1997 album Girl, music of this period began to be produced with a higher budget, increased technical quality, and with more layers than most other forms of dance music, since it was backed by major record labels and MTV as the " next big thing ".

The success of this film eventually spurred the idea of highlighting the voice actors as stars of a film, this becoming the norm in movie marketing, with a greater focus on hiring Hollywood celebrities for name power, rather than performers with most experience in voice acting, particularly the Toy Story ( Tom Hanks and Tim Allen ) and Shrek ( Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy and Antonio Banderas ) franchises.

The success of the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, spurred an increase in participation in winter sports ( and alpine skiing in particular ).

Although the economic success of cutting peat was short-lived ( it even led to Passchier Bolleman's financial ruin ), it spurred on to the foundation of Drachten.

Although the economic success of cutting peat was short-lived ( it even led to Passchier Bolleman's financial ruin ), it spurred on to the foundation of Drachten.

In 1989 The Allman Brothers reunited and returned to the popular consciousness of the American public, spurred by Gregg's recent FM radio success, the release of archival material by PolyGram, and the start of regular appearances on the American summer outdoor amphitheatre circuit.

Barbra Streisand covered the song on her Songbird album, and later, a Diamond-Streisand duet, spurred by the success of radio mash-ups, was recorded.

Popular success was very limited, though a small demand spurred some commercial recording.

Competition success played a big part in Indian's rapid growth and spurred technical innovation, as well.

An element of rivalry between them spurred them on, and they achieved some success.

The success of the historical novels of Sir Walter Scott as well as the pomp surrounding the visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 spurred 19th century interest in the clans and a reawakening of Scottish culture and pride.

Then in 1982, the box-office success of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian spurred a second renaissance of sword and sorcery Italian pepla in the five years immediately following.

The issue of immigration spurred a small rebound in popular interest from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, but the party only saw limited success in various local elections.

An early popular success was The Count of Monte Cristo, which spurred a host of historical novels on Arabic subjects.

The album's success was spurred by the multi-platinum, # 2 hit single Rump Shaker, which was kept at bay on the charts only by Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You, from her best-selling The Bodyguard Soundtrack.

The success spurred Williams to release a cocktail version as well.

Loguidice and Barton commented that Defenders success, along with Robotron: 2084, illustrated that video game enthusiasts were ready for more difficult games, which spurred developers to create more complex game designs.

Their success spurred an era of rapid growth at the company.

The Lancer Evolution VIII was also the first Evolution to be sold in the United States, spurred by the success of the Subaru Impreza WRX which had been released there just three years prior.

Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of USA Today's early success, since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores.

Other attempts were made by competitors to create soaps ( including Seconde Chance, Cinq soeurs and Paris 16ème ) but have not achieved success.

Despite a highly promoted launch ( including being named Time magazine's " 1994 Product of the Year ") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price ( US $ 599 at launch ), limited third-party developer support, and an over-saturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to competitors Sega and Nintendo.

In today's digital age, information one major key to success and having the right information means having better edge over the competitors.

The success of the AdLib Music Card soon attracted competitors.

While Sega would later rival Nintendo's success with the Mega Drive / Genesis, Atari never truly recovered and could not match the success of its competitors or its own 2600 console ; it finally stopped producing game systems in after the failure of the Atari Jaguar.

The competitors initially sniggered at Ballin, who organized and supervised the voyage personally, but the project was a huge success.

At in height ( some magazines reported as short as ), Columbu is shorter than most of his bodybuilding competitors, but that did not prevent him from achieving widespread success.

The success of Steven Bradbury in the 2002 Winter Olympics who won a skating gold medal after all his competitors crashed has coined the expression ' doing a Bradbury ' which underpins the spirit of the underdog, positive thinking and never giving up.

During the late 1960s and 1970s the saturation of the horror film market by competitors and the loss of American funding forced changes to the previously lucrative Hammer-formula, with varying degrees of success.

The 1947 International Eisteddfod was hailed as an unqualified success with praise for the organisers, the founders, and all the competitors.

However, a number of athletes have achieved success in both middle and long distance events, including Saïd Aouita who set world records from 1500 m to 5000 m. The use of pace-setters in long distance events is very common at the elite level, although they are not present at championship level competitions as all qualified competitors want to win.

Unlike its competitors The Today Show and Good Morning America, The Early Show did not carry a Sunday edition, nor were there any plans for one in the near future, due to the continued success of CBS News Sunday Morning, which has a distinctly different format with long form journalism reports and in-depth interview segments.

Brownlee tried to reach accommodations with the UGG's competitors to divide among them centres too small to support more than one elevator, and achieved some success, especially with the Alberta Wheat Pool.

In response to the success of Frappuccinos, several Starbucks ' competitors have developed similar drinks with similar sounding names, but only Starbucks can legally use the " Frappuccino " trademark.

With the visible success of the TR-63 Japanese competitors such as Toshiba and Sharp joined the market.

As had happened with the turboprops of only a few years earlier, the success of the CRJ led to the introduction of a host of competitors.

Private competitors also competed with much success in Sprites.

Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of the early success of USA Today, since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores.

The success of the marketing strategy led competitors to follow suit, and by the end of the century betel nut beauties and their neon-topped kiosks were a trademark feature of Taiwan's cities and countryside.

The financial and critical success of the event secured the company's status as the most successful promotion in the United States, rising above competitors such as the National Wrestling Alliance and American Wrestling Association.

Pollinators which maintain a wider range of color can use tetrachromatic color vision to increase and maintain a higher foraging success rate over their trichromatic competitors.

During this time, the company maintained success over its top competitors: General Mills, who largely marketed children's cereals, and Post, who had difficulty in the adult cereal market.