actuate

Your decision to leave him was not actuated by a greater love for another man.

Once the computer was actuated it needed two points of reference.

The hand that you saw writing was actuated by the mechanism.

Set up a course to our target area and let me review it before you actuate.

That further step was, I believe, actuated by two motives.

Their hands lifted up as if springs had actuated them.

In the present instance, a worse feeling than either of these actuated the leader.

Had one of them moved just before the helix was actuated?

When actuated, the valve changes position and opens the flow.

He was like a mechanical figure, its hands actuated by pressure upon a hidden spring.

"Close all watertight doors and actuate the fire control system!"

This signal is actuated by the guard just before boarding himself.

Then they slide into place when I actuate them with this concealed radio control.

As if actuated by the pressure, the bridge gave a heave.

Regard for his uncle was the only motive that actuated him.

Then, as though actuated by some afterthought, turned back to the witness.

They had some able men on both sides, and actuated by equal zeal.

A strong physical nature, actuated by a keen desire for the feminine, was the next.

Two distinct actions are required to actuate the switches again.

An intersection equipped with detection is said to be actuated.

"We are all dead if you have actuated it!"

The motion of her lips was mechanical, as though actuated by some one other than herself.

It also had an inner dial, actuated by a stop mechanism.

He's rather emotional, intent, and actuated by very high motives.