powerful impulse

collocation in English

meaningsofpowerfulandimpulse

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powerful
adjective
uk
/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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impulse
noun
uk
/ˈɪm.pʌls/us
/ˈɪm.pʌls/
a sudden strong wish to ...
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(Definition ofpowerfulandimpulsefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The idea that policy decisions should ideally be based on rational considerations has been given apowerfulimpulseby the introduction of the concept of technology assessment as such.
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I believe it will give apowerfulimpulsein this direction.
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We need to link up the whole of this mechanism to a much morepowerfulimpulsefrom a central power station than we have at present.
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Over-compensation reflects a morepowerfulimpulseto gain an extra margin of development, frequently beyond the normal range.
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Thispowerfulimpulsecan be resisted with difficulty, but at the cost of great personal stress.
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The company got thepowerfulimpulseof development in the last decade.
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With the awakening of art in the 12th century the decoration of manuscripts received apowerfulimpulse.
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Now our first proposition is that very powerful impulses towards such a change were generated by a peculiar concatenation of circumstances in the nineteenth century.
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Primitivism - the desire to restore an original pattern that has been lost - had always been one of the most powerful impulses of the puritan movement.
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In so doing, we then undermine the very deep and powerful impulses that have been expressed in violence either on a world-wide scale or on an individual scale.
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Each force influences the others and receives in return powerful impulses or brakes on its own development.
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