Impetuses

Word IMPETUSES
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Definitions and meanings of "Impetuses"

What do we mean by impetuses?

Something that impels; a stimulating factor.

A force, either internal or external, that impels; an impulse.

The force or energy associated with a moving body; a stimulus.

An activity in response to a stimulus.

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The word "impetuses" in example sentences

In hours and hours of testimony the impetuses to cheat were the same: nearly impossible targets, job security, fear of public humiliation, and to a lesser extent, money. ❋ Unknown (2011)

With authoritative and affective warp, you're dealing with duty and desire, the ethical and emotional impetuses that are driving the narrative, challenges that confront the character with a clusterfuck of deontic and boulomaic quirks, or quirks that are themselves responses to that clusterfuck. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

And so that was one of the big impetuses for looking for telomerase, which was to try to see how the cells answer the question of how their incomplete replication problem gets solved. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Another possible reason for appeal concerns the impetuses for wiretapping Edwards in the first place. ❋ MATT LABASH (2010)

I want my words and stories to be the impetuses that tempt and, ultimately, convince readers to buy. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Objectivist ethics may be based on rational egoism but still are driven by good or evil impetuses. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For all of the post-election media chatter about our post-racial world -- one of the underlying impetuses, if I'm being honest with myself, for our move -- I wonder if my generation, which is more or less Obama's generation, will ever be able to fully embrace colorblindness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We are humans after all, with intellect that takes into account sociological impetuses as well as personal well-being. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Wright has a helpful treatment of authority, in which he suggests that the authority of the Bible and Christian tradition is like the authority of earlier chapters in a novel: characters do not simply repeat things they do in earlier chapters, but their actions in subsequent parts of the story carry forward the directions and impetuses of what went before. ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)

Some feared that any less-aggressive monetary easing could prop up the dollar and take away one of the recent impetuses for buying gold. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Today, we seem effectively to be at the opposite point from the ideology of the 1960s: the mottos of spontaneity, creative self-expression, and so on, are taken over by the System; in other words, the old logic of the system reproducing itself through repressing and rigidly channeling the subject's spontaneous impetuses is left behind. ❋ Jms (2006)

Yet, on the other hand, his criticisms were frequently not without their point, and his provocations certainly did serve as counter-impetuses that spurred Nishida on, not just to clarify, but also to further develop his philosophy of Absolute Nothingness (see Sugimoto 2004; Kopf 2004). ❋ Davis, Bret W. (2006)

Certainly the original intention on Renoir's part was to adapt Maupassant's original short story into a short feature film no longer than sixty minutes, with one of the main impetuses being the opportunity to work again with the 24-year-old Sylvia Bataille (at the time wife of Georges Bataille, future wife of Jacques Lacan) who had made such an impression in Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (1936). ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2005)

I got mistaken for a rapist on 14th St and I began to realize it really, really matters, this sort of -- the impression someone forms of you in those first two seconds and that was really one of the impetuses for the book, is to try and figure out what's going on in that moment. ❋ Unknown (2005)

One of the main impetuses for European integration had been to offset communist power in the East. ❋ DANIEL YERGIN (1998)

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