The phrase "a controlling force" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an entity or influence that exerts power or authority over others.
Example: "In the organization, the CEO is often seen as a controlling force, guiding the company's direction and decisions."
Alternatives: "an influential power" or "a dominant influence".
In the concluding episode of this series (and who can believe that the BBC will deny us a second?) a controlling force emerged that completely altered perceptions.
Nearly all governors depend for their action on centrifugal force and consist of a pair of masses rotating about a spindle driven by the prime mover and kept from flying outward by a controlling force, usually applied by springs.
From a conceptually novel scenario, this work suggests that the often-overlooked chiral catalyst local polarizability property may function as a controlling force in enantioselection thus has important implication in rational catalyst design.
The EFD device can provide a controlling force that can vary continuously, with rapid response and recognizing reverse and thereby overcome the drawbacks of the conventional energy dissipation devices whose force models are invariable.
What makes Dr Werfel's approach different is that instead of having a controlling force, in the form of a computer program, sitting at the centre telling everything else what to do (as was the case in Pennsylvania), control is distributed throughout the system's components, which cannot communicate with each other.
Microsoft has of course tried to be a player in this movement with a scaled-down version of Windows called Windows CE, but the company certainly can't be considered a controlling force in this arena.
Over the last decade it has been demonstrated that a variety of tissue-forming cells can both sense the stiffness of their substrate and apply a controlled force onto that substrate.
The skull tapper was composed of an electromagnetic push type mechanism automatically controlled by the software to deliver a controlled force with a hit onset detection mechanism.
Reviewing all the inventions that made the ice industry possible and the way they worked together to prevent ice from melting, Rees demonstrates how technological systems can operate without a central controlling force.
McLaughry had been told when he was younger that God could become a guiding and controlling force in his life.
They have essentially taken on a master and that controlling force has the upper hand at all times.
