Sentence examples similar to word initiating from inspiring English sources

Mr. Byrd would have done better to substitute the word "initiated" for "halted".

That word initiates a Pavlovian response, almost knee-jerk reaction in many -- "Quick!

The war of words initiated by Charlie Sheen against his employers at CBS and the Warner Brother television studio turned into a legal confrontation Monday, when a lawyer hired by Mr. Sheen demanded that the actor be paid for lost episodes of his show, "Two and a Half Men".

Although originated for stylistic and literary purposes, the identification of regular patterns in the figurative use of words initiated by classical rhetoric provided a first organized framework to investigate the semantic flexibility of words, and stimulated an interest in our ability to use lexical expressions beyond the boundaries of their literal meaning.

Taken together, these results demonstrate that inflectionally complex words initiate morpho-phonological decomposition by engaging most strongly the perceptual and linguistic systems during the time window within which auditory input provides evidence for the grammatical morpheme.

The word alone initiates the rolling of eyeballs in some quarters and full on protest in others.

It is important to note that even in this self-paced task in which subjects could take breaks, the average time it took to pronounce a word and initiate presentation of the next one by pressing space was considerably shorter than the stimulus presentation time in the scanner (presentation time in scanner: 1.5 s, longest average reading time: 1.28 s).

The word "initial" suggests the verb "initiate," and one interpretation of Emerson's claim that "all virtues are initial" is that virtues initiate historically developing forms of life, such as those of the Roman nobility or the Confucian junxi.

Reading accuracy and the time from word presentation to next word-initiating button press were recorded.

The imbalance of power between American forces and Muslim forces demanded a new kind of fighting, he wrote, "in other words, to initiate a guerrilla war, where sons of the nation, not the military forces, take part in it".

"As the child smiles," Everett Ellinwood writes, "it usually engages the adult human to interact with him to smile, to talk, to hold in other words, to initiate the processes of socialization...