Sentence examples for impetus has been from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless key impetus has been handed to the Czech Republic in the race to win second place behind Spain in Group I.

A major impetus has been a decline in enrollments in the last five years, forcing some institutions to work harder at selling these students on the virtues of attending a university where they are not in the minority.

"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.

If "Emeralds" has been called the French section of "Jewels" and "Diamonds," the third section, a tribute to 19th-century Russian ballet, "Rubies," with its jazzy impetus, has been linked to Stravinsky's years in America.

Whereas in the past, the main force behind this impetus has been a bloody guerrilla war, it is now a campaign of civil disobedience that Kurdish leaders here say is inspired not just by the events in neighboring Syria as well as Egypt, Yemen and Libya, but by the fight for civil rights in the United States in the 1960s.

More recently, a further impetus has been resentment of foreign control over industries upon which the state may be largely dependent, as in the nationalization of the oil industries in Mexico in 1938 and Iran in 1951, and in the nationalization of foreign businesses in Cuba in 1960.

United had been distracted in the early part of the season by the understanding that Sir Alex Ferguson was going to retire at its conclusion, and by the time that mistake was corrected some impetus had been lost.

Unfortunately, despite the diligence and impetus that has been invested, this process has been delayed in several occasions as the Union had to deal with internal and external destabilizing factors, such as the later immigration crisis or the lack of uniformity among its member states' foreign policy interests.

But Lee says it's precisely that impetus that has been flawed.

The main impetus, thus far, has been the guild's annual Golden Laurel Awards (the equivalent of the Directors Guild and Screen Actors Guild Awards).

But regardless of the source of the inequality, the impetus for change has been steadily growing.