Example Sentences

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If we value and prize our human nursing world and our human potential for consciousness and expression, we will actuate our potential and conceptualize our human nurse-world.

From Humanistic Nursing by Paterson, Josephine G.

Belief, in Christ's sense of the word, is not the acceptance of a theory, it is something that will actuate the man's whole being, and which requires the concurrence of an emancipated will.

From Pastor Pastorum by Latham, Rev. Henry

Stations wholly magnetic may be established by adding to the transmitter and two receivers a Sieur phonic call, which will actuate them powerfully, and cause them to produce a noise loud enough for a call.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

The same high purposes will actuate and animate society as a whole and this, in turn, will make for a higher type of civilization and accelerate progress toward unity in school procedure.

From The Reconstructed School by Pearson, Francis B.

That's the only thing that will actuate the warning signal.

From Accidental Flight by Wallace, F. L. (Floyd L.)