actuating
- v put in motion or move to act
- v give an incentive for action
- s causing motion or action or change
- Re capital punishment: one's own motivating forces and morals are the actuating or deterring factors.
- It can be fairly asserted, that the actuating motive which drove the French into the Ruhr was fear that the Germans would be able to turn their military defeat into an economic .
- The passage of his hands, moving airily near the antennae, so altered a current actuating a tonal diaphram and loudspeaker, that any pitch audible to the human ear could be .