Word: impetuses
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Pomey’s lawyers argued that Gomes was the impetus for the crime...
...crude young Italians from New York City who vomit in the hallways and copulate in the pool. In the lean winter months, the family rents rooms to hookers and their clients. Lin's unnamed narrator mans the front desk at night and cleans the mattresses, giving him plenty of impetus to do what 12-year-old boys do: wonder, fantasize and wait impatiently for his own turn...
...impetus for the speech came in April, when Arab and European allies pressed a reluctant Bush administration off the sidelines as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict threatened to spiral out of control. U.S.-aligned Arab states, led by Saudi Arabia, warned Washington that the raging violence imperiled its long-term interests in the region, particularly the war on terrorism and the proposed campaign against Iraq. After consulting with allies, President Bush began to add comments about supporting Palestinian statehood to his denunciations of Palestinian terrorism. The State Department, Washington's Arab allies and even Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres...
...while faculty such as Margaret E. Law, a senior lecturer on physics, said there had been concern among the Faculty about the issues prior to the Globe’s article, others say the extensive press coverage was a major impetus behind the reform effort...
Neither beefed up rhetoric nor strengthened impetus for a move is enough to make a massive new campus a reality...