Sentence examples for stimulus an idea from inspiring English sources

Looming over the debate is Sunday's presidential runoff election in France, where the candidate leading in the polls, the Socialist François Hollande, has vowed to renegotiate the stability treaty to allow for more growth stimulus, an idea both sides in the Irish debate support.

However, it is possible that the effects of dopamine on valuation are not limited to future events and that enhanced dopaminergic function during imagination modulates the present value of a stimulus, an idea best tested with stimuli that can be directly experienced or consumed.

An action is voluntary when its stimulus is an "idea, or state of mind … which we term the will" (OM 1, prop. 21).

They passed a stimulus, the idea that we could borrow $831 billion, spend it on all these special interest groups and that it would work out just fine, that unemployment would never get to 8 percent.

But his own relentless salesmanship around the country and an economic slowdown, which he used to justify an economic stimulus, turned the idea into an inevitability, a piece of political jujitsu that his own aides fear will be hard to repeat on many other issues.

Now there's an idea for a stimulus package.

Though Democrats and a small number of Republicans in Congress have repeatedly suggested a reduction in the payroll tax that pays for Social Security as an economic stimulus, the idea has not gathered much steam.

"A $1 trillion government stimulus is a bad idea under Democrats and it's a bad idea for a Republican," Hooks said to donor applause, USA Today reported.

The Bush administration, which does not favor a further stimulus, resisted that idea.

He is a Nobel laureate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was an adviser to President Kennedy in the 1960's, when tax cuts came into their heyday as a fiscal stimulus -- the idea being that people would spend the windfall, helping to revive a failing economy.

Despite adverse experience, the Keynesian stimulus idea has a viselike hold on policymakers, pundits and academics.