Sentence examples for first impetus from inspiring English sources

My first impetus was to try and get beyond the stereotype.

The first impetus to the revolution was given by Alcibiades, who certainly was a product of the Sophistic age.

From this point, mostly working with literary adaptations, Rosi's career seemed to lose much of its first impetus.

"The first impetus [of Broodwork] was to get people to acknowledge interweaving of creative practice and family life," she told me.

Besides, she said, "our first impetus was, we want to see a program that works," a motivation more experienced residents might have counseled against as quixotic.

The modern mental-health movement received its first impetus from the energetic leadership of a former mental patient in Connecticut, Clifford Whittingham Beers.

The second impetus came from the study of cancer.

A second impetus for privatization emerged in the United States in the 1980s.

That is because when homeowners request permits to add a legal accessory apartment, zoning officials almost always insist that the second door be added on the side or in the back -- for reasons that have everything to do with the second impetus behind the new law: aesthetics.

The second impetus is a very real, and widening, disparity between federal funding for the biological and the physical sciences.

A third impetus for the market's exuberance lay in the announcement that Japan's Central Bank plans to double its allocation of funds to stocks.