The annual spring meeting has given an impetus in three main directions: more, deeper, and more timely political consultation within the alliance, the use of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( when ratified ) as a method of coordinating aid to the underdeveloped countries, and the need for strengthening conventional forces as well as the maintenance of the nuclear deterrent.

Although it had historical precursors, this idea derived its main impetus from a famous report by Scoville and Brenda Milner describing the results of surgical destruction of the hippocampus ( in an attempt to relieve epileptic seizures ), in a patient named Henry Gustav Molaison, known until his death in 2008 as H. M.

Currently, the most widely held belief is that the periodontal ligaments provide the main impetus for the process.

The runways, the main impetus for the base, required 27, 800 square yards of concrete.

The main impetus behind the change in name was to avoid confusion with the nearby community of Midland Park.

Supply-side economists, on the other hand, argued that the alleged collective benefit ( i. e jobs ) provided the main impetus for tax cuts.

The main impetus for the development of computational geometry as a discipline was progress in computer graphics and computer-aided design and manufacturing ( CAD / CAM ), but many problems in computational geometry are classical in nature, and may come from mathematical visualization.

The group initially brought together supporters of White Rhodesia and South Africa ; the main impetus for the group's formation was the Conservative's new decolonisation policies, in particular as a general reaction to Macmillan's ' Wind of Change ' speech made at Cape Town, South Africa.

* The main impetus behind the translation of large collections of fables attributed to Aesop and translated into European languages came from an early printed publication in Germany.

The main impetus for their demand was the ethnic and religious minorities then living inside Greek borders in Northern Greece.

The impetus for the program came with the recognition that the undergraduate program simply could not do justice to the Great Books of the three main Asian traditions ( India, China and Japan ) by trying to squeeze in a few works among so many European masterworks.

Urban farming is generally practiced for income-earning or food-producing activities, though in some communities the main impetus is recreation and relaxation.

In common law jurisdictions, the legal concept of entrapment may apply if the main impetus for the crime was the provocateur.

Although the main Chinese blow had fallen on US I Corps, the resistance by British Commonwealth forces in the battles at the Imjin River and at Kapyong had helped to blunt its impetus, with the defence mounted by the 27th Brigade stopping the Chinese from isolating the US I Corps from the US IX Corps, thereby helping to halt the Chinese advance on Seoul and preventing its capture.

The National Democracy's main stronghold was Greater Poland ( western Poland ), where much of the movement's early impetus derived from efforts to counter Imperial Germany's policy of Germanizing its Polish territorial holdings.

Their single, " Poi E ", indicated renewed impetus in contemporary Māori popular music The town again came to national attention in 1982 when the main employer, the Patea Freezing Works, was closed.

The main impetus behind this proposal is the significant influx of Japanese-market vehicles in Canada in recent years, particularly in Western provinces such as British Columbia due to geographical proximity to Asian ports of departure.

The machine-gun fire against them was intense, but the gallant leading of this officer gave such impetus to the assault that the enemy¹s main line of resistance was broken.

The main impetus for the development of the concertina, the melodeon and the accordion in the nineteenth century was to satisfy the market for a loud instrument for country dancing.

Since most workers were fresh off the farm and totally uneducated, the main impetus of revolution came from middle-class college graduates frustrated at the inefficiency of Russian society.

The main impetus for the strip's recharacterization was the rise of the United States in the aftermath of World War II.

Sheep farming, as many other places in Patagonia, was the main impetus for population settlements beginning in the late 19th century.

Motion suggests that the loss of erotic impetus, and Larkin's apparent fading of interest, are the main reasons why the story peters out.

This impasse reinforced the French and British commanders ' belief that to end the stalemate they needed a breakthrough ; while this desire may have been the main impetus behind the offensive, the timing and location were heavily influenced by a number of political and tactical factors.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

Fleischman with eight was to patrol the Leyte Gulf area, with his main task to get any kamikaze before they got to the ships.

Jean Bodin, writing in the sixteenth century, may have been the seminal thinker, but it was the vastly influential John Austin who set out the main lines of the concept as now understood.

He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

And it was his main present!!

The half-intensity diameter of the antenna beam was about 9', and the angle subtended by the moon included the entire main beam and part of the first side lobes.

The half-intensity diameter of the main lobe of the antenna was about 18'.5, and the brightness temperature was reduced by assuming a Gaussian shape for the antenna beam and a uniformly bright disk for the moon.

The issue was acute because the exiled Polish Government in London, supported in the main by Britain, was still competing with the new Lublin Government formed behind the Red Army.

But to return to the main line of our inquiry, it is doubtful that Utopia is still widely read because More was medieval or even because he was a martyr -- indeed, it is likely that these days many who read Utopia with interest do not even know that its author was a martyr.

The editor's main criticism of the trial was the haste with which it was conducted.

Like a wise gardener, Hardy pruned away the Shakespearian sonnets and songs, and the elements of meter and poetic diction to which his personal style was not suited, and let the main stock of his talent flourish.

Vermont's main railroad line was prostrate.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

Since then he had worked at this and that, though some said his main interest was gambling.

At present the doctor's main concern was in seeing to it that Japanese salvage firms were not permitted to operate on the hulks of warships sunk too close inshore, because the work involved setting off nerve-shattering blasts at all hours.

He'd have to think, but the main thing, the imperative necessity, was to leave before Sam Bentley was up and about, and before Millie detained him with sympathy.

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.