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impetus - use in sentences
Converse of object
- lend: To lend impetus to this, he planned an ambitious three day bazaar in the school Chapel in September 1908.
- give: The Welsh Language Act 1967 has given a new impetus to the use of Welsh in public affairs.
- provide: Margaret Bellamy looks at the impetus provided by a Best Value Review.
- renew: With democratization, there was renewed impetus to separate from Russia.
- add: Sixty years later, a copper mining boom added new impetus to the quest for a harbor.
- lose: Even the campaign in the media had lost some impetus.
Preposition: for
- reform: Concern about food safety, accelerated by the BSE crisis in the UK, provided further impetus for reform.
- creation: It was Margaret Thatcher who provided much of the impetus for the creation of a genuine Single Market by 30 December 1992.
- formation: The main impetus for the formation of the Single Market in the 1980s was the economic conditions which existed on the international scale.
- change: The impetus for change in the broader Middle East must come from within societies in the region.
- improvement: It is intended to encourage a culture of learning in the NHS, providing impetus for wider service improvement.
- development: Perhaps in Europe there is sufficient artistic impetus for independent development.
Adjective modifier
- renewed: This emerging discipline has been given renewed impetus with the announcement of the 2012 Olympics.
- added: We have the added impetus of the Olympic bid.
- fresh: Both songs have been reworked giving them fresh impetus.
- initial: Initial impetus was a desire to make words on scarves.
- tremendous: We come with a tremendous impetus for good or evil: born demons or born gods.
- considerable: This gives considerable impetus to the search for genes involved.
Noun used with modifier
- policy: The project survey examined the extent to which this policy impetus was being reflected in activity in public library authorities ( PLAs ).
- research: As a result of these new attitudes to language development there is an emerging research impetus in linguistics which concerns itself with recent change.
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