Sentence examples for like a stimulus from inspiring English sources

"A cartoon is sort of like a stimulus package for all of us," Mr. Grabowski said.

They include automobiles, like invitations from the Volvo unit of Ford Motor to "stimulate your stimulus"; retail, like a "stimulus sale" at ABC Carpet & Home stores; and travel, like a "stimulus, recovery and rebound package" at the Mohegan Sun casino and hotel in Uncasville, Conn.

The surroundings can, however, act like a stimulus.

On the one hand, this appeared to 'put [them under] time pressure', but on the other hand, it seemed 'like a stimulus for [them] to continue with learning'.

So Mr. Bush has put a premium on a two-track public opinion strategy: Rallying the country to war and explaining the goals at every turn, while taking visible steps like proposing a stimulus package to jolt the economy.

For example the impulse model proposed by Chechik and Koller (2009) (is designed to capture the typical impulse-like response to a stimulus, using a function with biologically meaningful parameters.

Further, we confirmed that palatability ratings show stronger liking for sweet stimuli than for sour, salty, or bitter stimuli and that relative liking or disliking of a stimulus is dependent on its concentration.

If President Obama can produce and sell that plan, private investors, big and small, will give us a stimulus like you've never seen.

Training the creature to react vigorously to a stimulus, like an annoying squirt of water, causes an increase in the flow of neurotransmitters -- biochemical information -- across certain synapses, a tweaking of the neurological volume controls.

So, it looks like there will be a stimulus — but that soaring gas prices will take some of the pep out of the original plan.

When a stimulus, like an auditory tone, occurs at the same time as a painful or otherwise aversive event, the tone comes to be associated with the pain and thereby acquires the capacity to trigger a protective fear (defense) response on its own.