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stimulus

A stimulus is an event that causes a system to change its output or behavior. The primary goal of the $31 billion economic stimulus package was to increase job growth. A stimulus is something that is noticed by the senses. The mice responded with fear to the painful stimulus.

stimulus

(= stimulation) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

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Simple sentences

The stimulus package was heavily criticised.
Light is the stimulus that causes a flower to open.
He doesn't respond to the stimulus.

Movie subtitles

The stimulus materialised.if I express myself scientifically.
She felt I needed the stimulus of a lover.
It's evident in all your amorous adventures that in order to conquer a woman and love her you have always needed the stimulus of danger.
Without the stimulus of danger you no longer have any libido.
Lustful desire, amorous stimulus.
Everything we've seen here so far seems to indicate some sort of compulsive, involuntary stimulus to action.
An erotic stimulus.
We all know the physical process involved, but not the link between stimulus and response.
It begins as a stimulus from the cerebral cortex, passes through the brainstem and to the muscles involved.
I mean - What they need is some real stimulus.
The temperature will start coming down fairly quickly, but without that stimulus, my neuropeptide level will fall to normal.
He'll claim it's some sort of artificial stimulus response.
I respond rationally to stimulus.
For us to receive as electrical impulses, neural stimulus.
Visual stimulus doesn't seem to be working.
First stimulus will be introduced into hidden area of test box.
Within two seconds, subject test animal reacts to lessening of danger stimulus.
Subject animal now almost totally relaxed as danger stimulus almost completely removed.
I used water as the external stimulus and from all indications, it would seem as though animals can actually sense hidden dangers by extrasensory perception.
With reference to fire stimulus, animal reaction extreme.
Animal relaxes with removal of stimulus.
Marsh, listen, I just tried the experiment again with flame as the hidden stimulus.
You've been using heat stimulus with flame.
Everything we've seen here so far seems to indicate some sort of compulsive involuntary stimulus to action.
Now, the rubindium crystals should find enough power here to achieve a necessary stimulus.
Reward stimulus is the last thing she would respond to.
The cardiac muscle isn't reacting to stimulus.
Couple number 5 needs a stimulus.
That's lame for a stimulus.
So the voyage to my childhood becomes my stimulus.
Of course, we all know the physical process involved, but not the link between stimulus and response.
The longest time a volunteer has endured complete solitude without any form of stimulus to the senses is 92 hours.
You mean affection may turn to hate under the stimulus of jealousy? Exactly. Why, then, come to me?
Doc Hayward said you needed familiar stimulus.
Actually, he's not reacting at all to any stimulus.
Look, Father, I'm a doctor, and I know it's not normal to fail to react to stimulus.
So, there's a tactile stimulus, and it digs in under the skin.

News and current affairs

This needs to be done on a sustained basis following the withdrawal of extraordinary fiscal stimulus.
The end of the stimulus itself is contractionary.
On a global scale, neither the US nor Japan is in a position to provide significant external stimulus.
A strategy for a Global Green New Deal, tailored to different national challenges, will be fleshed out in order to assist world leaders and ministers craft stimulus packages that work on multiple fronts.
Spent wisely, however, these stimulus packages could trigger far-reaching and transformational trends, setting the stage for a more sustainable, urgently needed Green Economy for the twenty-first century.
Meanwhile, unsustainable budget deficits and public debt in most advanced economies have severely limited the scope for further fiscal stimulus.
But the case against additional stimulus is also strong.
The US Congress lacks the stomach for another stimulus package.
A second stimulus simply is not in the cards.
But average GDP growth rates in the new members are twice as high as in the original members, and this can provide a welcome stimulus to stagnant labor markets and sluggish economies.
Now it has responded, with a stimulus package that is too little, too late, and badly designed.
China, for example, is worried that the Fed's stimulus will increase its domestic inflation.
Those who believe - often with quasi-religious conviction - that we need even more Keynesian fiscal stimulus, and should ignore government debt, seem to me to be panicking.
Perhaps international investors will be grateful to the US for its aggressive monetary and fiscal stimulus, which will accelerate sharply when President-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20.
A busted bubble led to a massive Keynesian stimulus that averted a much deeper recession, but that also fueled substantial budget deficits.
Unfortunately, despite past stimulus, growth is still tepid, and it is increasingly difficult to find sensible new spending that can pay off in the short run.
Faith in Keynesian stimulus diminished, though high inflation did reduce public-debt levels.
For now, EU governments' coordinated fiscal stimulus has deprived populists of their usual charge that the EU is indifferent to the fate of individuals.
If there was a case for additional stimulus back in February, that case is even stronger now.
The slowness with which the first stimulus has been rolled out, and the fact that it will take even more time for its full effects to be felt, provides more fodder for the chattering classes.
So, even those who find the economic logic of arguments for fiscal activism compelling must acknowledge that the politics are not supportive. A second stimulus simply is not in the cards.
Despite the impression created, particularly in the US, by media commentary and political debate, fiscal stimulus clearly helped in the crisis, though its impact is diminishing rapidly.

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