impetus

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Impetus for change has come from outsiders including Eric Slesinger, an engineer and former Central Intelligence Agency officer who also worked briefly at the CIA’s associated tech-investment operation, In-Q-Tel.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

Impetus director Steve Haines said: "We are concerned that the unintended consequence of this important intervention could end up disadvantaging the children who need it the most."

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024

Impetus for an inmates’ Goncourt came from the National Book Center, an official institution that supports France’s book industry, after President Emmanuel Macron declared reading one of his presidency’s “great causes.”

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

Impetus for self-documenting temperatures came as part of the Amazon group’s push for higher pay.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 21, 2022

Impetus theory was used to handle some anomalies, not to bring about a revolution; indeed, medieval natural philosophers were incapable of imagining a revolution that would supplant Aristotle.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton