Sentence examples for had no impetus from inspiring English sources

American theoretical biologist Jeffrey Wicken pointed out that replicating molecules, if they appeared first, would have had no impetus to develop a complex cellular package or associated protein machinery and that life thus probably arose as a metabolic system that was stabilized by the genetic code, which allowed life's second law-favoured process to continue ad infinitum.

He really had no impetus to build the thing aside from pure self satisfaction.

The movie dribbles along pleasantly from scene to scene, and though it doesn't falter, it has no impetus; it's "nice" when it should be explosively, painfully funny.

When debt is being paid as agreed - whether a nation's trillions in sovereign debt or a family's thousands in credit card debt - lenders have no impetus to negotiate terms that might be easier on the borrower.

Adapted from Jean-Claude Forest's comic strip, the screenplay is credited to a host of writers — including Vadim (Ms. Fonda's husband at the time) and Terry Southern, among them — and maybe that's why it has no dramatic impetus.

Hers is a sexual wildness born of incest (a literary device on which I would like to declare an international moratorium), but the eccentric Pauline, in "Family of Shadows," has no such impetus.

Abstract entities have no causal impetus and are unreal.

Baxley, who has been in the Legislature since 2000, said there has been no impetus for a general gas tax hike in that time, and that tolling is one way to gain revenue.

Still, if public broadcasting hadn't previously proved that early learning series can "do well by doing good," there would have been no impetus for any commercial service for the youngest audiences: toddlers don't have discretionary income.

But there might have been no impetus to restore the name at all if the memory of the old, artistically and intellectually rich St . Petersburghad not been kept alive in the United States.

"I have no doubt the Olympic impetus has been very valuable," claimed Johnson, a ubiquitous presence during last year's Games – whether dangling from a zipwire or waving the flag.