30 Verbs to Use for the Word incentive

His banishment meanwhile aroused the haughty spirit of his house, and anger at Gerard's treacherous conduct proved a further incentive to revenge.

But the little mother and the childrenah, it was here that the listener found Johnnie's incentive.

JOHNSON's Jan. 1840, 6 Surely, when we find the majority against us reduced from 58 to 6, we need no new incentive to perseverance.

The success of the work gave him an incentive towards writing, and three years later he published an historical romance, "Antonina, or The Fall of Rome."

He had that half of love which commonly passes for allthe passion; but he lacked the additional incentives which nerve the common man to face that fear which seems well-nigh as universal as the fear of death, I mean the fear of marriagelife's two fears: that is, he had no desire to increase his worldly possessions by annexing a dowry, or ambition of settling down and procuring a wife as part of his establishment.

Many of the wisest men in Norway consider the universal suffrage amendment to the constitution, which was passed in 1898, a mistake for this reasonbecause it removes a powerful incentive for men to accumulate money.

It restored the proper restraints upon vice, and supplied the incentives to virtue.

A capital full of officials, eunuchs, and all the satellites of an imperial court provided incentives to economic advance, because it represented a huge market.

"Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear: this is the anticipation of good, that of evil.

These wages he fixed at such a rate, that "they should be more than equivalent to the rent of their copyholds and the rent of their personal services when put together, in order to hold out to them an evident and profitable incentive to their industry."

But growth may be impeded, hastened, or suspended, and the most that can be done is to offer incentives to action, remove the obstacles to development, and establish conditions and influences that make more easy the finding of the right way.

Marriages of state are seldom love matches; the kind which furnish the incentives are always so.

From their dispassionate judgment much aid may always be obtained, while their approbation will form the greatest incentive and most gratifying reward for virtuous actions, and the dread of their censure the best security against the abuse of their confidence.

Mr. Grahame's fixed and sudden determination to send Lilla to school was, of course, laid by Annie and her confidant to Mrs. Hamilton's charge, and increased not a little their prejudice against her, adding fresh incentive to their schemes for the destruction of her peace, which Caroline's self-willed conduct now rendered even more easy than it had previously been.

If I had required any additional incentive to keep me to my daily task of watching, this would have been sufficient; but I wanted none.

A deformed misanthrope, called James Lalor, endowed with a considerable command of vague, passionate rhetoric, began to write incentives to revolt in The Nation, These growing more and more violent were by the editor at length prudently suppressed.

At the same time, the lively impressions that affected the public mind on the redemption of our captive fellow-citizens afford the most laudable incentive to our exertions to remove the remaining obstacles.

Improved as their speed had become, it continued to increase rather than to diminish, for Pierre Dumont kept his eye riveted on the heavens, and each moment of time seemed to bring new incentives to exertion.

Children may be enticed by candy, and older persons may be quite as readily influenced if we but choose the proper incentive.

It was dawning upon her with alarming force that she was exposing a hitherto unknown incentive.

I felt additional incentives tempting me to my fate.

The cultivators, as an inevitable consequence, lost every incentive to labor, energy, foresight and the moral qualities which are fostered by honestly rewarded work.

Here or elsewhere, at any rate, he came under the influence of the Bellini, of Mantegna, and more particularly of Jacopo dei Barbarithe painter and engraver to whom he owed the incentive to study the proportions of the human bodya study which henceforth became the most absorbing interest of his life.

He knew that besides a better equipment they possessed the strongest incentive to daring and determination, the desire to avenge some wrong.

Government frequently severely punishes them for making it; but they still persevere in producing this incentive to intoxication and crime.

30 Verbs to Use for the Word  incentive