major impetus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandimpetus
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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impetus
noun[S or U]
uk/ˈɪm.pɪ.təs/us/ˈɪm.pə.t̬əs/
something that encourages a particular activity or makes that activity more energetic ...
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(Definition ofmajorandimpetusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Such anxiety defines amajorimpetusbehind donation campaigns; further, it fuels the devotion that drives the difficult work of procurement staff throughout this country.
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First, themajorimpetusfor change came not from the senior civil servants but from the politicians.
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Only slowly did the government get on top of the problem, amajorimpetuscoming from the balance-of-payments crisis of 1947.
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If a larger revolution and sometimes pro-labour governments helped create this world, amajorimpetus came from the actions of industrial workers themselves.
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This was amajorimpetusfor students and young composers to study electroacoustic music.
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Amajorimpetusfor research into teaching roles came with the development of online distance language learning.
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The mineral revolution, first diamonds and then gold, provided amajorimpetusin the second half of the nineteenth century.
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This association between what was increasingly becoming an outmoded style of theatre and the growing cinema arguably provided amajorimpetusto theatrical reform in the period.
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My statement will provide amajorimpetusfor development on brownfield sites.
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That will provide amajorimpetusfor improvement across the industry.
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Humanistic psychology also hadmajorimpetusfrom existentialist psychology and shares many of the fundamental tenets.
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Themajorimpetusfor this was the patenting of the world's first lawnmower in 1830.
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This, and construction of privately financed roads, were themajorimpetusto settlement.
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This has been themajorimpetusto develop either a fire-and-forget version of the system or to develop a successor with this ability.
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Timbuk3 could be considered an important transition andmajorimpetusin music/backing track evolution.
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Amajorimpetusbehind marriage promotion is increasing father involvement.
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The canal and locks proved to be amajorimpetusto colonization and commerce.
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Amajorimpetusto collection of child support in many places is recovery of welfare expenditure.
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The railroad provided amajorimpetusto growth.
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He developed research interests in areas of palaeobotany that were subsequently to provide amajorimpetusto the emerging science of palynology.
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