animating force
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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
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
The pair took on hosting duties at “Radiolab” a little over a year ago, when the show’s founder and animating force, Jad Abumrad, stepped down voluntarily after 20 years.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2023
The new sequel to that podcast, “Once Upon a Time...at Bennington College,” claims Sherman Oaks-bred “Less Than Zero” author Bret Easton Ellis as one of its central figures and its key animating force.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2021
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
