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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
impel .
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For, in poetry, some emotional response to the object meant by the word impels to its utterance, and this is embodied in it when it is uttered, and a similar feeling is awakened in the auditor when it is heard or read.
The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker
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Others are of native construction, with lateen sails; and many, built with high stems and sterns, have the square mat-sail, such as impels the Batavian fishing prahus.
James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The very structure of such a relationship to misery and death impels Silas to impress upon her audience the enduring will to obliterate all genocide--however insidiously resident the genocidal impulse may be in all societies and cultures, a factor that accounts for how and why genocide spreads and flares up at unforeseen intervals.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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The sorry spectacle of one bill after another being defeated in the Senate despite having a majority of senators voting for it impels us to circulate this petition.
Joyce Appleby: The Urgency of a Senate Rule Change Joyce Appleby 2011
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Since I began this operation with a story from The Lakeville Journal, a sense of symmetry impels me to end with another newspaper quotation.
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism" r_urell 2010
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The very structure of such a relationship to misery and death impels Silas to impress upon her audience the enduring will to obliterate all genocide--however insidiously resident the genocidal impulse may be in all societies and cultures, a factor that accounts for how and why genocide spreads and flares up at unforeseen intervals.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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The sorry spectacle of one bill after another being defeated in the Senate despite having a majority of senators voting for it impels us to circulate this petition.
Joyce Appleby: The Urgency of a Senate Rule Change Joyce Appleby 2011
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Whatever it is that impels a firefighter to rush into a combusting building is, as I see it, some strain of "gospel truth" at work, and is obviously an example of "holy action" in the extreme.
Michele Somerville: Christian Sacrifice And The Unholy Crusade To Defrock Roy Bourgeois Michele Somerville 2011
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The sorry spectacle of one bill after another being defeated in the Senate despite having a majority of senators voting for it impels us to circulate this petition.
Joyce Appleby: The Urgency of a Senate Rule Change Joyce Appleby 2011
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The very structure of such a relationship to misery and death impels Silas to impress upon her audience the enduring will to obliterate all genocide--however insidiously resident the genocidal impulse may be in all societies and cultures, a factor that accounts for how and why genocide spreads and flares up at unforeseen intervals.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas G. Roger Denson 2011
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