IMPETUS


Meaning of IMPETUS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

added

This view received added impetus from the proposal to construct the Trans-Siberian Railway.

fresh

New products are introduced every quarter to give the sales force fresh impetus .

Fresh legs do not always bring fresh impetus , unless they belong to Joe Worsley or Trevor Woodman.

Mozart had brought fresh impetus to a time-worn formula thanks to his recent exposure to exciting new developments in Paris.

In Kwangju a protester received a near-fatal beating by police in an incident which served to give fresh impetus to the protests.

further

The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus .

While responses to the Kirklees Report were being discussed, a further incident gave impetus to more precise anti-racist policies.

So it was that the companies gradually came to terms with the increasing traffic and provided it with a further impetus .

The popularity of rap and hip-hop with young white provided further impetus and black directors were suddenly in demand.

All of the capacities could have evolved independently, but then obtained further impetus for change from the gradual emergence of language.

initial

The same consideration applies to the initial impetus for your story.

Mann's children may provide the initial impetus for her practice, but the conceptual agenda lies beyond them.

This means you are not given the same level of initial impetus .

The initial impetus for the rethink came not from the officials but from Sir Stafford Cripps in the summer of 1946.

The enquiry's initial impetus was being lost and now they were all groping.

major

A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing.

But the major inflationary impetus was provided by the conjunction of two factors.

This provides a major impetus for the involvement of tenants in the management of their homes.

new

Researching the area to be covered in advance puts a new impetus back into flying.

For the Downland, sheep remained dominant; it was in the coastal plain and Weald that a new impetus was given.

But it has been given a new impetus , even an urgency, by the advent of modern computer technology.

Each wild rumour adds new impetus to the exodus.

In recent years, they have given a new impetus to the forecasting of natural disasters.

The coming of war in 1914 quickly gave new impetus to the hitherto rather limited and amateurish propaganda efforts of governments.

In the middle of the recession, the economy needs new impetus not a tax cut.

■ VERB

add

Each wild rumour adds new impetus to the exodus.

Their negative reaction was added impetus .

Technological change, especially in military weapons, gave added impetus to the new expansionism.

come

In many ways the most powerful impetus to greater concentrations came from the state.

The impetus must come from the top.

During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came largely from individuals.

Where, then, does the impetus for creativity come from?

The impetus will have to come from older people themselves.

The impetus came from the unions.

The impetus for these practices came from the need to remunerate the rapidly expanding number of clerks in royal service.

But a lot of the impetus has come from the cash Thorn paid when he sold the record company.

give

Government policy does not believe transport planning gives road haulage impetus !

But impulses can start anywhere, given enough impetus .

Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning.

They would drop almost into range, and then make use of the slope to give impetus to their charge.

At all events, it was this group of the dispossessed that gave the first successful impetus to the Revolution.

The crises of 1947 and 1949 might have given strong impetus to planning.

lose

On New Year's Day they briefly topped the division, but since then have lost players and impetus .

Gorbad's wound causes him to become weaker and weaker, until the Waaagh gradually loses impetus .

provide

The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1829 provided further impetus .

This laser provided an early impetus for studies of instabilities by tending to produce noisy, spiked output even under quasi-steady excitation.

Mann's children may provide the initial impetus for her practice, but the conceptual agenda lies beyond them.

This provides a major impetus for the involvement of tenants in the management of their homes.

Promoting enterprise Government needs to provide an immediate impetus to get the economy moving.

That in turn would hopefully provide an impetus for closer political union.

This type of study provided the impetus to investigation of the role of angioplasty for residual thrombosis following thrombolytic therapy.

Yesterday it was Chris Evert, normally her rival, who provided the impetus .

receive

The process of proletarianisation has also received some impetus from the spread of agribusiness in the region.

The area where the Industrial Revolution had received its greatest impetus was soon one of high unemployment.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Press criticism has been the main impetus behind the government reforms.

The impetus for change in the industry was provided by a new management team.

The Surgeon General's speech will give new impetus to the anti-smoking campaign.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A major impetus has been that users found this detailed budgetary accounting confusing.

During the 1920s and 1930s interest in occupational family allowances grew but the impetus to introduce them came largely from individuals.

Gathering research data has an impetus of its own and this part of the research procedure was carried through reasonably smoothly.

Nevertheless there are important factors that give a strong impetus to a reductivist reasoning.

She seized the handle, but the impetus was too great, and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp.

The same consideration applies to the initial impetus for your story.

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