The phrase "a sort of stimulus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that acts as an encouragement or provocation for a response or action.
Example: "The new policy served as a sort of stimulus for increased productivity among the employees."
Alternatives: "a type of motivation" or "a form of encouragement".
One might posit that the sequestration measure was designed to artificially accelerate the convergence of ideas, a sort of "Euclidian Stimulus" that is clearly preferable to the conflict Lincoln faced.
The first proposal has proven time and time again to act as a sort of "green stimulus" for states' economies-California has consistently proven itself as an outshining example of this, increasingly employing tens of thousands of workers in green energy and transportation construction and maintenance.
Put differently, the board believes the project to be a tremendous sort of stimulus: according to its estimate, Dawei would shorten the time it takes for their national economy to double in size, from 14 years to just ten.The better case for Dawei is based on geopolitics.
So I'm very optimistic that all the millions of dollars that will be spent in the next few months for these Republican-on-Republican fights are a dandy sort of stimulus for sign-makers, robocallers, and also local television and radio stations.
Some Democrats think of it as a sort of back-door stimulus — because Congress won't pass President Obama's jobs plan.
The measures the federal government took to control the damage were complex and controversial, but there was general agreement that at some point it would have to intervene to prevent a worldwide financial collapse, and that without some sort of stimulus a real depression loomed.
Although from a biological perspective, it makes sense that a gene which is responding to some sort of stimulus or some sort of drug or ligand or hormone would want to know if that hormone or ligand was still present.
If oil companies making the biggest profits in the history of the planet weren't getting "free lunches" in the form of multi-billion-dollar tax breaks, such progressive policies might provide the sort of stimulus that an all-too-timid Congress seems unwilling to consider.
"I'm waiting for the new president to deliver a great address" and maybe even "some sort of stimulus package".
The objective was to investigate if a sort of "memory effect" of the stimulus during the repeated parabolas could cause a different response during the time of the flight (higher/lower, anticipated/retarded).
Perhaps the best that can come of the fall showdown, according to people with knowledge of the issues, is a compromise that still would keep the so-called discretionary spending at the lowest levels in a half-century — reducing the fiscal drag, but hardly providing the sort of stimulus that Mr. Obama has proposed.
