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Waves with longer periods were also shaking the Ross shelf—indeed, they were inducing a much larger response than the storm waves were.

From Economist • Feb. 18, 2010

Some of the most inspiriting of the strains that were inducing the youth of the country to familiarize themselves with steel blades and rifle barrels proceeded from the pens of those fair and gifted beings.

From Speeches from the Dock, Part I by Various

So this was the story by which they were inducing her to trust herself in their hands.

From Simon Dale by Hope, Anthony

Forstner had told his men to beware, and warned them against listening to French foreign agents, whom the Germans claimed were inducing French soldiers to desert in order to join the French legion.

From My Four Years in Germany by Gerard, James W. (James Watson)

Presently she spoke of him and of her plighted word which her brother and those supple gentlemen of the House of Borgia were inducing her to dishonour.

From The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro by Sabatini, Rafael