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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61. Fresh legs do not always bring fresh impetus, unless they belong to Joe Worsley or Trevor Woodman.
62. This impetus originated mainly from two previously noted sources: the user's immediate family and the police.
63. This means you are not given the same level of initial impetus.
64. They would drop almost into range, and then make use of the slope to give impetus to their charge.
65. Promoting enterprise Government needs to provide an immediate impetus to get the economy moving.
66. In recent years, they have given a new impetus to the forecasting of natural disasters.
67. In the middle of the recession, the economy needs new impetus not a tax cut.
68. New products are introduced every quarter to give the sales force fresh impetus.
69. After all, it was inspiration from the patchwork quilts in 1952 which had proved the original impetus for the whole company.
70. The enquiry's initial impetus was being lost and now they were all groping.
71. This hint of planning poses as yet unanswerable questions about the early impetus towards urban development.
72. Such was the impetus for the new phase of Middle East peace-making launched in October 1991.
73. Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning.
74. Despite his love of distraction[sentencedict.com], Minton in his career as yet showed no loss of impetus.
75. What I had come to suspect was that Botham was no longer running in with the same menace and impetus as before.
76. The end of the Wall gives a powerful impetus for new security thinking, which the West would be foolish to ignore.
77. The coming of war in 1914 quickly gave new impetus to the hitherto rather limited and amateurish propaganda efforts of governments.
78. The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning.
79. Provided that it did no positive harm, they reckoned, it could spread unchecked under its own impetus.
80. At all events, it was this group of the dispossessed that gave the first successful impetus to the Revolution.
81. The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus.
82. The impetus will have to come from older people themselves.
83. Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning. Let us consider the ontological version first.
84. This laser provided an early impetus for studies of instabilities by tending to produce noisy, spiked output even under quasi-steady excitation.
85. Researching the area to be covered in advance puts a new impetus back into flying.
86. Their only saving grace is that they probably were an impetus towards social reform.
87. War conditions added to the general impetus for change but at the same time they also inhibited change.
88. In many ways the most powerful impetus to greater concentrations came from the state.
89. This is the main impetus behind the expansion of further and higher education in the past dozen years.
90. But the major inflationary impetus was provided by the conjunction of two factors.
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.