Protestors rallied across the country on Saturday, but the anti-war impetus of the Bush years has not been regained, as I discovered to my sorrow during a brief U.S. tour in November, when I showed the new documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" (directed by Polly Nash and myself) in New York, Washington D.C., and the Bay Area.
The exigencies of war gave impetus and funding to computer research.
The war gave impetus to the US policy of Indian removal, in which Native American tribes were pressured to sell their lands and move west of the Mississippi River.
The proliferation of paperback books during the decades after World War II gave impetus to the journalistic book, exemplified by works reporting and analyzing election campaigns, political scandals, and world affairs in general, and the "new journalism" of such authors as Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, and Norman Mailer.
The petroleum reserve lay dormant until the Second World War provided an impetus to explore new oil prospects.
The war was an impetus for the creation of distinctly American songs that became and remained wildly popular.
In the post-world war era, the impetus has been on international coalitions and technological investments for a resilient and more peaceful world.
The scarcity of cotton in Lancashire caused by a decline in trade due to the American Civil War gave an impetus to cotton and textile production and led to cotton presses being established all over the Presidency.
It is interesting to note that modern money, the type used today -- whether a dollar bill, euro or yen, was created in the late 17th century with the need to finance wars, giving further impetus to the money-creating mechanism.
The Falklands war gave a dramatic impetus to her own self-confidence.
But he declined to state whether those attacks should be the impetus for war.
