What is "actuating"

Usage examples of "actuating".

That force which once was I seems still capable of actuating several more lives, or of raising up whole worlds.

If the actuating force cease after this operation, matter must remain for ever in disorder, and continue an immense chaos, without any proportion or activity.

But suppose that the actuating force, whatever it be, still continues in matter, this first position will immediately give place to a second, which will likewise in all probability be as disorderly as the first, and so on through many successions of changes and revolutions.

Tesar squeezed the trigger - then snarled in pain as the safety circuits sensed a clog in the emitter nozzle and shut down the actuating module.

And now, when she was weeping at his feet and deploring the sin of the dinner party,-- which, after all, was a trifling sin,--he could not comprehend the feelings which were actuating her.

But he was fiercely jealous, with that class-jealousy which was the fundamental actuating motive of his life.

But that the great actuating motive of a man's maturity, of the middle span, was vested along with his dreams, his pride and his love, in his son, his man-child.

We're coming to the crux of what I have to try to impart to you before we get out there and start actuating this fearsome potential of yours.

After actuating a timing mechanism, undoubtedly he reached up and placed the bomb there.

The gremlins are in engineering the actuating sorcery and the support systems.

The motives actuating men to desert were not closely analyzed by us, but we held all who did so as despicable scoundrels, too vile to be adequately described in words.