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
How can it give impulse to matter, how set it in motion?
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
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
The rational will, which is the educated will, should give impulse and guidance to all our thinking, loving, and doing.
From Education and the Higher Life by J. L. Spalding
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 Alice Freeman Palmer
