give impulse
Example Sentences
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Rousseff thanked Lula and promised dialogue and political reform to fight corruption and give impulse to economic growth.
From Washington Post
Deeds often repeated give impulse and direction to character, and these appear in the offspring as predispositions of body and mind.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis
Thus from all sides came potent influences of personal friendship—of his friends and associates more onward—to give impulse and momentum to Crashaw's mystical Roman-Catholic sympathies.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
No competent subordinate sits around waiting for someone else to give impulse to movement if his senses tell him that things are going to pot.
From The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 by United States. Dept. of Defense
He was long a notable figure in university life, one of those picturesque characters who by their very being give impulse to aspiring mortals and check 285 the ever-encroaching commonplace.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Palmer, Alice Freeman
