This, coupled with a rather natural fear of being trapped 200 feet underground, lent impetus to their attempts to remove themselves from the scene.

The coverage lends new impetus to the democracy movement.

The advance is likely to lend new impetus to research on the bacterium, Helicobacter pylori.

With guns behind him to lend impetus he might do even better.

Court approval, he said, would "lend impetus to a trend toward atomizing public education."

They thought this might lend impetus to future American-Soviet dealings.

The main question is whether the apparent success in negotiations on reducing other missiles will lend impetus to the talks on strategic arms.

This will lend impetus to the peace process.

But they also lent powerful impetus to Mr. Gorbachev's campaign for renewal.

Against those concerns, American officers cite several factors they believe will lend impetus to the new offensive.