Word: impetuses
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...extra strain on those who stay. Department chairs will have to juggle schedules to ensure that popular courses are offered consistently. Hiring more faculty is one way to help departments compensate for the loss of more professors for longer periods of time, and so this change should add impetus to Kirby’s plan to expand significantly the size of the faculty. For now, departments have been instructed to submit three-year plans that will take into account the temporary loss of faculty members who take advantage of the new leave policy. These plans should allow departments to ensure...
...dearth of space has prompted members of both communities to recognize a new impetus for interdisciplinary work...
...There is another possible impetus for an attack. Gujaratis go to the polls in mid-December, and the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP party's agenda is a barely disguised campaign against Muslims. A strike would serve as a warning that Muslims will not be cowed. "Once an attack happens, we will all say, 'That is so obvious, why didn't we think of it,'" warns the official. "That is what people are saying about Bali now." By Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi
...issue polarized the group’s membership, with some members heatedly arguing that the controversial aspects of the event were unwarranted without a concrete impetus...
Since Dzerzhinsky was, along with Vladimir Lenin, the driving impetus behind this savagery, he was given the nickname “Iron Felix.” At his orders, captured “enemies” of the regime were often sent to forced labor and concentration camps or else just summarily killed in their jail cells. On one night alone in 1919, some 1,500 Moscow prisoners were executed at Dzerzhinsky’s command. His Cheka was also feared for its particularly sadistic methods of torture. These included shoving victims into tanks of boiling water, sawing their bones...