Sentence examples for a certain impetus from inspiring English sources

Its spiritual violence will act like a cancer". All of which adds a certain impetus to my task.

It struck us that the new prohibition movement (see the W.C.T.U.'s newspaper campaign telling us that to refuse a cocktail is mark of good judgement), must derive a certain impetus from people sitting around in comfortable, modern restaurants allowing themselves to be airconditioned.

She spoke well and clearly, but with a certain unstoppable impetus and fixity.

Libido was supposed to consist of a kind of motivational energy internally generated with a certain strength or impetus, having the aim of achieving sexual gratification through interaction with some external object.

This means that if an entire policy community provides policy makers with a powerful impetus to move in a certain direction, policy makers are actually likely to move.

"When we talked about independent film at the beginning of the decade, we talked about its impetus being primarily creative, a desire to make a certain kind of film that couldn't be made within the studios.

His friend Richard Suckle, who is now a producer in Hollywood, assured me that, though the impetus for Dornstein's film may have been therapeutic, at a certain point his narrative instincts would take over.

Second, the democratic impetus of public engagement must find ways to manage the need for policy to uphold a certain quality standard and do so in a manner that is publicly defensible.

A certain earnestness.

A certain pattern emerged.

To a certain extent.