Sentence examples for propelled as from inspiring English sources

Sales of "The Da Vinci Code" have been propelled, as is so often the case, by word of mouth.

That said, the former senator's last few weeks of campaigning were propelled as much out of spite as spirituality – perhaps even more of the former than the latter.

Propelled as well by its popularity as an electronic home for personal ads and pornography sites, more than three million Minitels, essentially 8-inch television screens with keyboards that usually folded up when not in use, were in French homes and offices by the mid-1980's.

The story rattles along, propelled, as always, by James's eloquent way with words.

Like surreal figments in a dream, the refugees constantly scuttle across the vast expanse of the empty stage, propelled as if their feet never touched the ground.

The crowd — just about evenly divided between men and women — instantly segregated itself: the men were propelled as if by a centrifuge toward the room's perimeters, and the dance floor, a platform raised just a step off the ground, was taken over entirely by women surrounding Freedia.

But an outpouring of affection following the singer's sudden death looks set to propel as many as 27 of her singles into the charts this weekend, according to the Official Charts Company.

Kevin Forest Moreau of Shakingthrough.net said, "the guitars stumble in a monotone of mid-level, processed rattle; the drums don't propel as much as struggle to disguise an all-too-turgid pace; and the rage is both unfocused and leavened with too much narcissistic navel-gazing".

The pressure for girls to maintain hairless bodies has propelled children as young as eight to seek out painful treatments such as electrolysis and waxing for body hair.

Judging by the length of these boats, from 60 to 80 feet, she said, they probably would have been propelled by as many as 30 rowers.

The ideas propelled history as much as the geography they concerned; they encouraged people in power to think about the big picture when they might have done better to think small.