Sample Sentences forimpetus (auto-selected)
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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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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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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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It was one of those complicated fabrics that have since been called handling-machines, and the study of which has already given such an enormous impetus to terrestrial invention.† (source)
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At this moment Derick was in the act of pitching his lamp-feeder at the advancing boats, and also his oil-can; perhaps with the double view of retarding his rivals' way, and at the same time economically accelerating his own by the momentary impetus of the backward toss.† (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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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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The impetus to help comes from the local bishop, Hipolito Reyes Larios.† (source)
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She gets pregnant sometimes and then the vicious cycle is given impetus.† (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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"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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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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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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