Louis MacNeice

Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.

British Poet

Marquis de Lafayette

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician.

French Revolutionary

Siegfried Sassoon

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

English Poet

John Paul Jones

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.

American Soldier

Max Stirner

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by his appetites.

German Philosopher

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by appetites.

Sidney Poitier

Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.

American Actor

Actuate often relates to mechanical or electrical processes.

Mechanical Context

Actuate highlights the start of a system's operation rather than ongoing functioning.

System Activation

Using 'actuate' implies direct initiation, often at the beginning of a process.

Initiate Action

It refers to sparking a motivation that leads to someone taking an action.

Motivational Trigger

Actuate can imply influencing thought patterns before action takes place.

Influence Thought

Often suggests the initial push or influence leading to a decision or action.

Initial Impetus

 are doing is actually shifting the data lens inward to better enable and empower their own people now in the high-performance world the Formula One racing Ferraris actually been doing this for a very long time they were the first one to build one of these on the screen is a sensing and actuating center and it will analyze billions of data points in

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 so we still have a lot of work to do the second robot I want to talk about is called impasse it stands for intelligent mobility platform with actuated spoke system so it's a wheel leg hybrid robot so think of a rimless wheel or a spoke wheel but the spokes individually move

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 and said, shouted, "Perché non parli? Why don't you talk?" Well today, for the first time, our environment is starting to talk back to us. And I'll show just a few examples -- again, with this idea of sensing our environment and actuating it. Let's starting with sensing.

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 than four feet so you are hunkered over and you are actuated this crank you're sweating you're cramped the humidity inside you're in a sealed container I

Actuate

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System Activation

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