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  • noun Plural form of impetus.

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Examples

  • In hours and hours of testimony the impetuses to cheat were the same: nearly impossible targets, job security, fear of public humiliation, and to a lesser extent, money.

    Investigators in Atlanta cheating scandal discuss culture of corruption 2011

  • In hours and hours of testimony the impetuses to cheat were the same: nearly impossible targets, job security, fear of public humiliation, and to a lesser extent, money.

    Investigators in Atlanta cheating scandal discuss culture of corruption 2011

  • And so that was one of the big impetuses for looking for telomerase, which was to try to see how the cells answer the question of how their incomplete replication problem gets solved.

    Elizabeth H. Blackburn - Interview 2009

  • With authoritative and affective warp, you're dealing with duty and desire, the ethical and emotional impetuses that are driving the narrative, challenges that confront the character with a clusterfuck of deontic and boulomaic quirks, or quirks that are themselves responses to that clusterfuck.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • With authoritative and affective warp, you're dealing with duty and desire, the ethical and emotional impetuses that are driving the narrative, challenges that confront the character with a clusterfuck of deontic and boulomaic quirks, or quirks that are themselves responses to that clusterfuck.

    Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010

  • Another possible reason for appeal concerns the impetuses for wiretapping Edwards in the first place.

    FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010

  • I want my words and stories to be the impetuses that tempt and, ultimately, convince readers to buy.

    Pick up lines 2008

  • I want my words and stories to be the impetuses that tempt and, ultimately, convince readers to buy.

    February 2008 2008

  • Objectivist ethics may be based on rational egoism but still are driven by good or evil impetuses.

    Robbie Gennet: Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2 2009

  • For all of the post-election media chatter about our post-racial world -- one of the underlying impetuses, if I'm being honest with myself, for our move -- I wonder if my generation, which is more or less Obama's generation, will ever be able to fully embrace colorblindness.

    Deborah Copaken Kogan: There Goes the Neighborhood 2009

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