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Budget cuts were the impetus for the reorganization.
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The Supreme Court decision provided the impetus for the change.
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The impetus to help comes from the local bishop, Hipolito Reyes Larios.† (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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Harry sped forward, propelled by the impetus of the bike's flight, then the sidecar began to lose height — In desperation Harry pointed his wand at the sidecar and shouted, "Wingardium Leviosa!† (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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We, however, needed another impetus to motivate us.† (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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A result and impetus of all this activity became the Chicano Moratorium Against the War.† (source)
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I have such grave doubts about myself whenever I stop to think about the subject, that a word of encouragement from one who has so wonderfully sounded out his life, gives me a new impetus.† (source)
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It's something physical like graffiti The impetus to engage in a certain kind of behavior is not coming from a certain kind of person but from a feature of the environment.† (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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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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stroll with the monster might slim me down, rev me up and offer the impetus to slip into my future, better equipped to deal with the mindless tedium that is my life.† (source)
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She gets pregnant sometimes and then the vicious cycle is given impetus.† (source)
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It was that impetus that drove him to give up his heart, just as I was driven to help him do it because it would cancel out my vote to execute him in the first place.† (source)
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