(n.) A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.
(n.) Fig.: Impulse; incentive; vigor; force.
(n.) The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire a velocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impetus for the creation of an epidemiology of mental illness came from the work of late nineteenth century social scientists concerned with understanding individual and social behavior and applying their findings to social problems.
(2) Although major reforms are underway in many total institutions to humanize treatment procedures, innovative alternatives to custodial care are gaining impetus in the community.
(3) Thus shifts in the marital structure between 1961 and 1971 could have provided little impetus to a decline in the CBR of the country.
(4) The introduction and acceptance of percutaneous nephrostomy as a safe and effective alternative to surgical nephrostomy served as the impetus for the development and expansion of an ever-increasing number of techniques that are encompassed by the term "interventional uroradiology."
(5) Two concepts are presented which attempt to clarify the pathogenesis of FIPV and at the same time may serve as an impetus for further research.
(6) It is intended to provide you with an impetus to work within your state nurses' association to learn more.
(7) Second, the impetus for change may come from unexpected sources, including those high-flying corporate women, some of whom are beginning to show promising signs of rebellion.
(8) Appropriate effort toward minimizing insult of the right ventricle could result in significantly decreasing the incidence and severity of perioperative right ventricular failure before the impetus of the continuing clinical problem dictates improvement in techniques to more appropriately treat this frequently preventable problem.
(9) The relative clinical significance of lead III Q waves and the effect of inspiration has received added impetus after the finding that Q waves have predictive value for coronary artery disease and asynergy.
(10) This question provided the impetus for the descriptive study presented here.
(11) Nevertheless, the improvement in survival provides impetus to refine and improve the procedure so that survival can reach that attained by recipients of other major organ allografts.
(12) The impetus to discover cementless techniques for fixing implants to bone is the result of the high failure rates of cemented arthroplasty in young, active patients.
(13) The development and refinement of osseointegration have had primary impetus in treatment of the totally edentulous patient.
(14) Much of the impetus to the work has come from medical requirements.
(15) Enoxacin, in common with other new oral 4-quinolones, has a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity which includes most pulmonary pathogens (with the exception of Streptococcus pneumoniae, against which its activity is poor); this spectrum has provided the impetus for investigation of its potential in the treatment of respiratory infections.
(16) Renewable energy developers and green campaigners fear that without a similar target for 2030, the impetus to invest in renewables will be lost to fossil fuels such as gas .
(17) Brooks has long had an interest in research on the mind and the brain, but the impetus of The Social Animal came from an unlikely source.
(18) The impetus for this article was the observation of vestibular dysfunction in 15 clinical cases (12 dogs and 3 cats), in 8 of which it was confirmed that the ear canal had been rinsed with this drug combination in the presence of a ruptured tympanic membrane.
(19) The Oxford International Symposium on myocardial preservation provided an appropriate milestone and impetus to survey one aspect of operative myocardial preservation, namely blood cardioplegia, and to contrast it with the more popular crystalloid cardioplegia.
(20) Although assessment of families as guided by nursing conceptual models is gaining impetus in the field of nursing, the incorporation of psychometrically sound clinical research measures into assessment protocols is a relatively recent phenomenon in family health nursing.
Incentivise
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Our last chance to restrain the housing bill is with the Lords | Bob Kerslake Read more The report goes on to argue that private housebuilders, as currently incentivised, are unable to deliver this target and calls for local authorities and housing associations to be freed up to build substantially more homes for rent and sale.
(2) It’s about incentivising a new balance between risk management and relational support by enabling social workers to do what they do at their best: to see and build on people’s strengths, head off problems before they become crises, show empathy, and offer creative and flexible support, focused on the long term.
(3) Meanwhile some residents feel that Norma 26 , a policy meant to incentivise the construction of much-needed low-income housing, is actually driving gentrification.
(4) It will also recommend ways to incentivise all parents to take up the offer of classes.
(5) A Department for Work and Pensions spokesman said: “Our welfare reforms are incentivising work and restoring fairness to the system, because we know that work is the best route out of poverty.
(6) But while May appeared to suggest she would seek guarantees, she will also have to deal with the question of the point at which new rules are enacted, and whether they could be set retrospectively to avoid incentivising a spike in immigration.
(7) But that tension – between producers incentivised to build their content business and broadcasters strapped to the wheel of maximising on-air performance – has proved impossible to resolve.
(8) He called for more imaginative ways to incentivise the pharmaceutical industry, for example through changes to patents, and for regulation around clinical trials to be eased.
(9) The task is made harder still because of the intense pressures from Centrica's shareholders to deliver extraordinarily high financial rates of return, made worse because the directors' team, rewarded in bonuses and options related to share-price performance, are strongly incentivised to focus only on the share price.
(10) Instead, the only approaches that this government knows are to deregulate and incentivise the private sector, in the belief that, ultimately, it will meet the city’s housing needs unaided.
(11) "Ofcom fears that as Sky develops its online services its market power could transfer to these new services and that it will be enabled and indeed incentivised to charge high prices," said Tony Ballard, a partner at law firm Harbottle & Lewis.
(12) He denied that: there is a fear factor ingrained into the whole culture of Sports Direct; that some shop workers are told they can be dismissed for three misdemeanours; that workers sometimes feel under pressure to mislead customers and the commission scheme only incentivises them to sell Sports Direct brands; that finish times on rotas are not adhered to; that there is inadequate training and that the company has been paying shop workers less than the legal minimum.
(13) The new plan cites funding for electric taxis and hydrogen vehicles that had already been announced and commits only to “exploring” vehicle tax changes to incentivise cleaner cars and lorries.
(14) Claire O’Rourke, the national director of Solar Citizens, said renewable energy was a cost-of-living issue, because incentivising household solar panels allowed people to reduce their electricity bill.
(15) We have a system at present that doesn’t incentivise politicians to do anything about migrants, so you see stereotypes like “migrants take jobs”, “migrants are terrorists”, “migrants are security risks”, “they are criminals”, “they bring illnesses”, all these stereotypes that have been demonstrated to be false by social science simply continue to be in the public discourse because no one is speaking up against them, neither the migrants nor we citizens.
(16) The problem is that these are no longer the harmless peccadilloes of the super-rich, presented as fundamental to incentivise performance.
(17) Doctors know that better care can cost less and we can use the tariff to incentivise better, more efficient care for patients."
(18) Palace’s offer is heavily incentivised and it also contains a break clause that would be triggered in the event of Adebayor breaching any of the club’s disciplinary rules.
(19) ¤ create a comprehensive affordable housing development programme to incentivise the creation of quality mixed use developments in high demand locations based upon the principles of high density development around strengthened transport nodes, using dedicated delivery vehicles such as Housing Regeneration Companies.
(20) Second, I would consider targeted tax cuts that are not too costly to the Treasury – for example cutting the 50% tax rate to 40% to incentivise entrepreneurial activity.