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
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
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 George Willis Cooke
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 Richard Crashaw
A mere dip of the paddles now and then served to give impulse to the light, and literal, bark.
From The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
