animating force
Example Sentences
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The Court did so even though the plaintiffs were not questioning their detention — the animating force behind habeas petitions — and were instead objecting to their looming deportation.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
But the quest to recreate that one sound proved to be the animating force of his life.
From New York Times ● May 29, 2023
I’ve been trying to cut to, like, the animating force here, and I think that distrust is at the heart of it.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2023
For years, she has been the animating force pushing Twitter to champion free expression abroad.
From Washington Post ● May 9, 2022
For all that, Lawrence remained unmistakably the animating force at Livermore, which soon acquired the operational features of a classic Lawrence laboratory.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
