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driving force
Idioms and Phrases
The impetus, power, or energy behind something in motion, as in He was clearly the driving force in the new administration . This term transfers the force that sets in motion an engine or vehicle to other enterprises. Ralph Waldo Emerson was among the first to use it figuratively ( English Traits , 1856): “The ability of its journals is the driving force.â€Example Sentences
Xi Jinping has already vowed "to make domestic demand the main driving force and stabilising anchor of growth".
Coach James Trotman, who has worked with Draper since he was a teenager, has been a driving force in his success.
He says this while at the Get Busy Living Centre, a state-of-the art facility that he is the driving force behind, which offers total support to those in a similar situation.
Perhaps this was what the Chinese Communist Party hoped for when it declared in 2017 that AI would be "the main driving force" of the country's progress.
The discovery adds to a developing picture of those pathways and the biological driving forces behind overeating.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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