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Example sentences for: impetus

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3 However, until the 1990s, retailers had neither the data collection and computing capabilities required to execute these models effectively nor the tremendous impetus to implement them that lean retailing has precipitated.
Going forward, participants believed that the impetus for change to the financial reporting model would have to come more from the investors and other users of financial information who need timely, accurate, and useful information to make value and risk judgments about publicly traded companies.
Surely a single John Rocker response is sufficient impetus to point out that Major League Baseball--the organization, not the actual players--is as odious and craven a pack of millionaires never sued by Patricia Duff.
The most important thing about the IBM sell-off, though, was what it wasn't , namely an impetus for a more general sell-off in technology.
The art critic Lucy Lippard discerned a different impetus in these buoyant pictures, labeling the peanut shaped forms as "testicular"--a sign, Storr adds, of "the 'ballsy' ethos of [Smith's] generation of male artists."