Word: impetuses
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...group of students called the Student Organizing Project has provided the main impetus behind the unionization effort, drawing up the Student Union Enabling Policy and submitting the proposal to the UMass board of trustees...
Instead, group members said a report Leonard issued last spring about his disappointment at the progress of affirmative action here was part of the impetus for its founding...
Ruth Colker '78, task force co-coordinator, said yesterday that impetus for the joint task force resulted largely from a report to the University made last spring by Walter J. Leonard, assistant to President Bok, who criticized Harvard's lack of progress in fulfilling HEW requirements...
...impetus to furnish Ms. Caldwell with what she so justly merits−her own opera house...
...that Shylock engrosses the play, crowding out the rest of the characters, is not an exclusively modern event (it is probably part of the romantic desire to see heroes in villains and vice versa, that made Satan the hero of Paradise Lost), though it has gained great impetus from the horrors of anti-semitism in the twentieth century. The basic font and origin of the trouble with The Merchant of Venice is something nearly unique in Shakespeare--an unresolved tension between an Elizabethan stage convention (the evil Jew) and Shakespeare's own meaning...