Sample Sentences forimpetus (auto-selected)
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A result and impetus of all this activity became the Chicano Moratorium Against the War.† (source)
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—from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan It was a relief globe of a world, partly in shadows, spinning under the impetus of a fat hand that glittered with rings.† (source)
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Laila learned eventually that the impetus for this transformation was an eighteen-year-old boy whose attention Giti had caught.† (source)
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We pretended we were warning him, but of course we were hoping to give him impetus to try to be with you.† (source)
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I saw that in another moment, and with one impetus of frenzy more, I should be able to do nothing with him.† (source)
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We, however, needed another impetus to motivate us.† (source)
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The tone and impetus of public speaking carried him that far and no farther.† (source)
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She gets pregnant sometimes and then the vicious cycle is given impetus.† (source)
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The impetus to help comes from the local bishop, Hipolito Reyes Larios.† (source)
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She ran in as far as the middle of the lobby as though from impetus.† (source)
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"I was kind of hoping this would be the impetus to get him to make a change and get off the streets," says James Velarde, a friend who lives nearby and visited Adams in the hospital, first at County-USC and later at Rancho Los Amigos.† (source)
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He was her only child, born of an occasional alliance with the well-known shipowner Don Pius V Loayza, one of the three brothers who had founded the River Company of the Caribbean and thereby given new impetus to steam navigation along the Magdalena River.† (source)
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The Taoiseach and I will meet again next spring in London, with key ministerial colleagues, to give this the necessary impetus and agenda, and will thereafter meet at least once a year to review progress.† (source)
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There was a technological and a logistical necessity embedded in the new directive, the impetus of which derived not from any sudden preservative concern on the part of the Germans for the Slavs and other "Aryan" non-Jewish deportees, but from an overriding obsession—springing from Hitler and amounting now to mania in the minds of Himmler, Eichmann and their cousin overlords in the SS chain of command—to finally get on with the Jewish slaughter until every Jew in Europe had perished.† (source)
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I was poised for flight, but I was waiting for some event, some word, some act, some circumstance to furnish the impetus.† (source)
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It is the impetus of that shattering phalanx of iron—spread across the battlefront, inescapable, pulverizing, louder than drums, beating the earth.† (source)
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