Sentence examples for had been propelled from inspiring English sources

Only a generation before, the country had been propelled into a terrible civil war.

For the first time anywhere, a song had been propelled to the top spot entirely by internet downloads.

Meanwhile, the real winner, Thomas Hicks, had been propelled to the finish line by a mid-race cocktail of brandy, egg whites, and rat poison.

Ireland's problems were caused largely by the collapse of its banking system, which stemmed from the collapse of a property boom that had been propelled by cheap credit and tax incentives.

The finding strips any possibility of legitimate achievement in human cell cloning from a researcher who had been propelled to international celebrity and whose promise to make paralyzed people walk had been engraved on a Korean postage stamp.

At city hall, across a park from the burning federal Parliament, Mr. Kostunica swept through the huge crowd to give a speech of triumph and reconciliation from the balcony, a reluctant revolutionary who had been propelled into power.

Optimism has been propelled by economic progress.

The shift has been propelled by a number of factors.

The idea has been propelled by the wave of Republican victories in the midterm elections.

It has been propelled by two high-profile attacks in the past year.

And each has been propelled this postseason by the players who usually swing the biggest bats.