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Example sentences for: impetus

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A large part of the impetus behind the education reform movement had been panic over U.S. competitiveness in the international economy.
The introduction of the RI intercross (RIX) by Threadgill and colleagues [ 19, 20] provides an impetus to precisely define recombination breakpoints in RI strains.
But it is to say that females--an inherently scarce sexual resource, in Darwinian terms--are in both species a big part of the impetus for the evolution of aggressive tendencies in males.
The impetus to settle comes because Paula Jones' appeal will be heard in mid-October; Jones views the Lewinsky revelations as a possible asset to her suit.
But the episode in Poland, called Polish October, exposed fissures in the Communist regime, and it served as the impetus for a slight relaxation of censorship, religious repression, and economic controls.