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Meanings of actuate by in English

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Usage of actuate by in English
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Gas-valves for remote control are actuated by gas pressure and by electromagnets.
Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
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You will not suppose that I am actuated by simple feminine curiosity.
Cord and Creese
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The charges against him were purely technical and were actuated by malevolence.
Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall ...
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I suspect that he was actuated by some such considerations as these:
The Theory of Social Revolutions
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My desire to make her acquaintance is purely actuated by business motives.
The Tempting of Tavernake
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They could not understand that big men are sometimes actuated by whims.
The Rainy Day Railroad War
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A man so ready to compromise is actuated by no guiding principle.
The Mirrors of Washington
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The villain of real life is actuated by mere sordid and selfish motives.
Stage-Land
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The windlasses that lift the bridge are actuated by manual power.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885
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They seemed actuated by the same frenzy which possessed the dancers.
The Day of the Beast
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They were engaged in a national cause, and strongly actuated by mistaken principles.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From...
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The one was actuated by an angry, the other by a generous spirit.
The Channings: A Story
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I believe he has been actuated by the best of motives--
One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York
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We are actuated by an unconscious eclecticism, and make the composition for ourselves.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 / Volume 17, New Series, A...
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Figure 82 represents a fine drill actuated by a Griscom motor.
The Story of Electricity
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Mrs. Chivers herself thinks he was actuated by a rude sort of gratitude.
Midnight In Beauchamp Row / 1895