(a.) Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
(a.) Serving to kindle or set on fire.
(n.) That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(2) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(3) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(4) "The victims are very clear that those outstanding matters of detail – which are not on the charter but on the legislation surrounding the incentives mainly – is just as important to them than any detail in the charter."
(5) The report's authors warns that to limit their spending councils will have "an incentive to discourage low-income families from living in the area" and that raises the possibility that councils will – like the ill-fated poll tax of the early 1990s – be left to chase desperately poor people through the courts for small amounts of unpaid tax.
(6) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
(7) Removing that economic incentive is the most powerful thing we can do to reduce levels of immigration back to what British people want to see,” he said.
(8) These incentives provided employees with evidence of tangible support for continuing education.
(9) Including these incentive or responsibility payments in fixed pay is also more honest in accounting terms.
(10) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
(11) The authors provide an important description of a successful alternative foster parent recruitment effort, including the provision of fiscal incentives for foster parent recruiters.
(12) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
(13) As an incentive, there should be mass availability of all types of contraceptive devices free of charge to users or at least highly subsidized.
(14) This can only be accomplished by providing time, facilities, incentives, and encouragement to do what originally attracted the teacher into a career in science and teaching in the first place.
(15) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(16) As a consumer-oriented regulatory tool, it is valuable though limited since it can only react to proposals and can neither initiate nor provide positive incentives for new programs.
(17) This measure aims to be an incentive for the industry to provide more healthy options.
(18) This study analyzed the cost-effectiveness and distribution of costs by program stage of three smoking cessation programs: a smoking cessation class; an incentive-based quit smoking contest; and a self-help quit smoking kit.
(19) However, few new commonhold flats are being built, as developers do not have the incentive of profiting from the freehold.
(20) Youth unemployment has fallen by 59,000 since the scheme's launch, but the low take-up of the wage incentive scheme means it can claim little credit.
Inceptive
Definition:
(a.) Beginning; expressing or indicating beginning; as, an inceptive proposition; an inceptive verb, which expresses the beginning of action; -- called also inchoative.
(n.) An inceptive word, phrase, or clause.
Example Sentences:
(1) Inception rate of persons was 0.73 versus 0.48, and point prevalence rates 0.002 versus 0.001, whilst period prevalence rates were 0.016 versus 0.011 for the study and control factories respectively.
(2) These are the first western depictions of our animals, and what they represent are the inception of the specific cultural politics which your nation forced on my continent, its land and its people with unhesitating colonial brutality.
(3) Its instrumentation and organisation are described and a consecutive sample of 1000 ECGs culled from the 50,000 computerised since its inception are discussed.
(4) Even the most popular Shia cleric, Sayyed Mohammed Fadlallah , a man who has deeply affected the thinking of key Hezbollah leaders and cadres since the party's inception, now says in no uncertain terms that Shias and the country as a whole want to see, and should see, a strong Lebanese army as the nation's sole protector; and that the perpetually unstable confessional system must be ended as soon as possible.
(5) This usually occurs 10 to 25 days after the inception of high-dose intravenous therapy and resolves when the penicillin therapy is discontinued.
(6) For each major diagnostic caterogy, with the exception of reactive depression and paranoid states, the inception rates are significantly higher among West Africans than West Indians.
(7) To identify prognostic factors in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), the authors studied an inception cohort of 45 patients in a non-endemic area (Group I).
(8) Since the inception of sexology as an academic discipline a century ago, the boundary between sexology, the science, and sexosophy, the philosophy of sex, has been poorly demarcated, especially with respect to the principles of sex-reform movements.
(9) Two or more years after the inception of therapy, only half of these patients were still using the insulin infusion pump.
(10) Since its inception, occupational therapy has recognized the importance of both preventive action and the promotion of wellness.
(11) Almost since its inception, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been using analytical techniques related to the concept of balancing benefits and costs.
(12) The findings demonstrate an increased use of family planning services in Saradidi following the inception of CBD.
(13) A Guardian Australia analysis of assessments made under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act since its inception in 2000 shows that 96.2% of projects – which include mining, ports and other infrastructure – have been given the green light, with conditions.
(14) Since its inception in July 1978, the Extramural Associates (EA) Program exemplifies the NIH effort to promote entry and participation of underrepresented minorities and women in biomedical and behavioral research.
(15) In the PSE cases, only clinical worsening was correctly classified by a high GHQ score at inception, age and poor coping abilities.
(16) This thesis deals with aetiology and mechanism of choleperitoneum inception during hemorrhagic pancreatitis.
(17) During the 8 years since inception of a home total parenteral nutrition program in 35 male patients 2 suffered priapism related temporally to the weekly intravenous infusion of 20 per cent fat emulsion.
(18) Nodular melanomas extend vertically from inception and often are not detected until they have penetrated to relatively deep levels.
(19) Future research in the aluminum industry needs to concentrate on longitudinal studies, preferably with an inception cohort for the investigation of potroom asthma.
(20) A survey was done in June 1983 in Saradidi, Kenya, one year after the inception of a community-based malaria control programme to determine if people were obtaining malaria treatment from volunteer village health helpers (VHH's) chosen by the community.