Synonym: momentum, push, thrust. Similar words: compete, perpetual, competitor, perpetuate, imperial, imperious, impeccable, status. Meaning: ['ɪmpɪtəs] n. 1. a force that moves something along 2. the act of applying force suddenly.
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31. The impetus for change in the industry was provided by a new management team.
32. Above all, Partnership has added an exciting and stimulating impetus to the development of our school.
33. But a lot of the impetus has come from the cash Thorn paid when he sold the record company.
34. For the Downland, sheep remained dominant; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given.
35. It would give impetus to strategic disarmament negotiations, he said.
36. The Surgeon General has provided the impetus for health prevention programs.
37. The area where the Industrial Revolution had received its greatest impetus was soon one of high unemployment.
38. The popularity of rap and hip-hop with young white provided further impetus and black directors were suddenly in demand.
39. Mann's children may provide the initial impetus for her practice, but the conceptual agenda lies beyond them.
40. The Surgeon General's speech will give new impetus to the anti-smoking campaign.
41. During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came largely from individuals.
42. Technological change, especially in military weapons,[www.Sentencedict.com] gave added impetus to the new expansionism.
43. Carey Lohrenz, the F-14 Tomcat pilot whose grounding was the impetus for the probe, was unqualified to fly carrier-based aircraft.
44. This may partly account for an apparent lack of impetus from the start.
45. In 1987 there were three further statements after the Venice summit, maintaining the impetus towards greater policy coordination.
46. This impetus, in turn, gives social theory new insights into how individual selves negotiate larger social structures.
47. The impetus fur any step, pose or gesture should be part of the overall rhythm of the ballet.
48. This destroys your impetus and your courage to confront your fears.
49. Press criticism has been the main impetus behind the government reforms.
50. This view received added impetus from the proposal to construct the Trans-Siberian Railway.
51. By the late 1970s the impetus towards central control was well established.
52. Gorbad's wound causes him to become weaker and weaker(sentencedict.com), until the Waaagh gradually loses impetus.
53. Maintaining the impetus for change is brought about by nothing less than dogged determination.
54. This has rightly been seen as an impetus towards the fusion of legacy and trust.
55. While responses to the Kirklees Report were being discussed, a further incident gave impetus to more precise anti-racist policies.
56. This conclusion was the main impetus behind the King's Fund scheme of ward training for newly appointed sisters.
57. Winnicott was a subtle and original thinker who did much to give new impetus and direction to Freudian psychology.
58. This provides a major impetus for the involvement of tenants in the management of their homes.
59. However, science springs ultimately from the human urge to truth, and dogmatism eventually gives way under this impetus.
60. A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing.
More similar words: compete, perpetual, competitor, perpetuate, imperial, imperious, impeccable, status, afflatus, apparatus, pet, carpet, pettish, let up, get up, compel, set up, return, in return, compelling, take turns, meet up with, in return for, compensate for, compensation, imply, simply, impact, impose, impair.