Sentence examples for providing motive from inspiring English sources

With a weir and goit providing motive power for a water wheel, the factory was built for throstle spinning and the weaving of cotton a relatively new introduction to Britain.

Although the water jet provides motive power only in water, it is always operating.

And the Freudian flashbacks to Murray's childhood – designed to provide motive for his insecurity and egomania – often feel uncomfortably contrived.

Used to feed a fuel cell that delivers juice to an electric motor, hydrogen could provide motive power while spewing out environmentally harmless water vapor as exhaust.

Moreover, mere capability doesn't provide motive.

Complex gearing for uniquely Chinese clockworks were continued in the Ming Dynasty (1368 1644), with new designs driven by the power of falling sand instead of water to provide motive power to the wheel drive, and some Ming clocks perhaps featured reduction gearing rather than the earlier escapement of Su Song.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00594.014 The above mechanistic proposal provides motive to wonder what happens when K+ is replaced with Cs+, because Cs+ in crystal structures of K+ channels binds at only three sites and with unusually high occupancy at S1 (Zhou and MacKinnon, 2003).

Emotions were typically assumed to have directions and to provide motives for action.

According to the prosecution, this occurred before 1967 – a time when homosexuality was illegal, therefore providing a motive for Scott to blackmail Thorpe (who was then unmarried) and, ultimately, for a conspiracy by Thorpe and others to murder him.

In a study incorporating mathematical modelling of perivascular drainage, Schley et al. [ 17] postulated that changes in the calibre of blood vessels during each pulse cycle might alter the width of the perivascular spaces thereby providing the motive force for perivascular drainage.

In addition, it would also be of help for providing the motives to improve the status of obesity, and for setting personal goals.