Word: impetuses
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According to Mendelsohn, “the major impetus was that they found the old boundaries of concentrations no longer applicable...so what they did was design a program that crossed those boundaries...
...argued that the impetus behind the Iraq invasion was not to promote democracy, as the Bush administration claimed. Chomsky instead said that the American government ordered an invasion of Iraq in order to maintain its hegemony against China and to establish a U.S.-friendly puppet government...
...Bristol Motor Speedway. The car is a bit wider, a bit taller, a bit less long and actually a bit slower than the current models. Most important, the Car of Tomorrow is designed to be a whole lot safer than the car of today. The project was given tragic impetus during a nine-month period in 2000-2001 when a number of drivers were killed, including Petty's son Adam, then 19, and the legendary Dale Earnhardt, who ran into a wall at Daytona. Even so, the idea of developing the model was not exactly championed by the drivers...
...book is ultimately attuned to this broader task of poetry: the imperative and impetus it can provide for change, and the new possibilities for moral relation to others that lyrics can intimate, even with the slightest shifts in tone or mode of speech...
...disturbed that there seems to be some evidence of some diminution of concern by our government about what’s happening in Darfur at a time when the needs are as great as they ever have been,” Summers said.The impetus for this year’s divestment campaign was last month’s release of Harvard’s Securities and Exchange Commission filings, which showed the University had increased its holdings in Sinopec, said Chad J. Hazlett, an organizer of the petition and a student at the Kennedy School.“What we?...