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  • Well, the theft of the hammer was a good catalyst.†   (source)
  • I was glad he didn't know the catalyst behind Edward's decision.†   (source)
  • The change spread ....faster and faster as the catalyzed reaction opened its surface of contact.†   (source)
  • I stopped eating in the house, even on the weekends, because without Clara's catalyzing presence there was no reason why I should put up with my children's bickering.†   (source)
  • In some cases (such as the mailing and sprawling of the West) the fast food industry has been a catalyst and a symptom of larger economic trends.†   (source)
  • All signs point to you being the catalyst.†   (source)
  • So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women's power as economic catalysts.†   (source)
  • He stood silent at the bedside, his fingers lingering on the patient's pulse long after he had registered the heart rate, as if he needed the touch of skin, the thready signal in the radial artery to catalyze his decision.†   (source)
  • Don's marrying my mother, however, was a catalyst for her subsequent separation, and while they'd tried to stay apart, they couldn't, in Don's words, "fight the feeling."†   (source)
  • It had catalyzed a revelation inside their home.†   (source)
  • According to G., the police believed that Nieminen had been the catalyst behind the whole gang.†   (source)
  • Dave Severance became the catalyst for these reconnections.†   (source)
  • We have removed the catalyst, true—but the world of men must still work to repair the damage that has been done, and then, ultimately, must choose peace.†   (source)
  • Warming to the subject of his memorial, he portrayed it as the great catalyst for turning the entire point of view of the Dutch and thus affecting all Europe.†   (source)
  • It was true; enzymes acted as catalysts for all chemical reactions, by providing a surface for two molecules to come together and react upon.†   (source)
  • The spewing flame had its effect; heat and fire were catalysts.†   (source)
  • It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.†   (source)
  • And you, Valentine's daughter, to be the catalyst for it all.†   (source)
  • They were simply catalysts that brought existing problems into sharper focus.†   (source)
  • He wished he could go back home and take part, for he was sure this was the catalyst they had been seeking to detonate an open, nationwide polemic on slavery.†   (source)
  • They were its first occupants, and it would be some time before all this aseptic newness had been converted into a warm, human home, The children, doubtless, would catalyze the process rather effectively.†   (source)
  • Mark asked the question not because he thought Dutch could give him the answer, but as a catalyst to his own imagination.†   (source)
  • We wanted to do so much, wanted to be small catalysts in the transformation of the disfigured sacramental body of the South, which had sired us.†   (source)
  • His terror was the catalyst.†   (source)
  • I believe it is a catalyst that has the power to transform this world.†   (source)
  • Mark not only fits well in any social group, he's a catalyst to make the group work better.†   (source)
  • The drought's a catalyst, it's not the problem.†   (source)
  • Chani's taking the catalyst from my body to change the poison in that sack, Jessica thought.†   (source)
  • Then, I'll release hydrazine, very slowly, over the iridium catalyst, to turn it into N2 and H2.†   (source)
  • Your passion is an important catalyst in the coming changes.†   (source)
  • Let the catalyst do its work, she thought.†   (source)
  • My body was not to be used as an excuse; instead it was a catalyst.†   (source)
  • I was just a catalyst that made people nervous, guilty, or furious.†   (source)
  • Though the magic had—in the absence of a catalyst—skipped his generation, Billy was still a part of the power and the legend.†   (source)
  • It's been two bloody years, ya know" Thomas had an overwhelming feeling that all of these changes were a spur, a catalyst for the endgame.†   (source)
  • We need the catalyst.†   (source)
  • Robert, temperature is the fundamental alchemical catalyst, and it was not always measured in Fahrenheit and Celsius.†   (source)
  • For some reason, the gentle touch of his father's hand felt like it was burning through him like a potent catalyst that was initiating a chemical reaction inside Mal'akh's body.†   (source)
  • Katherine's revelations, if made public, would become a catalyst that would inspire mankind to rediscover the knowledge he had lost, empowering him beyond all imagination.†   (source)
  • Is there a catalyst?†   (source)
  • There's no catalyst.†   (source)
  • When you produce it by mixing vinegar with amyl alcohol, adding sulfuric acid as a catalyst, amyl acetate is an artificial flavor.†   (source)
  • So Big C's question was the catalyst for a great and memorable afternoon, one of those rare moments generated by chance, planned by no one, spontaneous and joyful, transcending the need for a teacher or a classroom, and making me once more think of education as something alive and helpful, instead of as a withered dream in need of formaldehyde.†   (source)
  • The sulfur and salt are alchemical catalysts that facilitate transformation.†   (source)
  • Like songs, odors are catalysts of memory.†   (source)
  • Langdon suddenly realized that all of the catalysts that had been driving him-helping to save Vatican City, rescuing the four cardinals, coming face to face with the brotherhood he had studied for years-all of these things had evaporated from his mind.†   (source)
  • Meg McCaffrey, prophecies are the catalysts for every important event—every quest or battle, disaster or miracle, birth or death.†   (source)
  • Catalysts.†   (source)
  • Catalysts.†   (source)
  • Mal'akh found it hard to imagine that the contents of these little boxes could change the course of human development, and yet Truth had always been the most potent of all the catalysts.†   (source)
  • Hema's calligraphy exercises catalyzed an unstoppable ink flow in Shiva's pen, but his medium was still paper bags, napkins, and end pages of books.†   (source)
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