Actions are driven by a hidden anatomy of spring-driven cogs and gears, 2,340 mechanical parts all, each one gilt or polished steel.
Here we have a basketball mystery: a player is widely regarded inside the N.B.A. as, at best, a replaceable cog in a machine driven by superstars.
In a 2009 NY Times article called "The No-Stats All-Star," Michael Lewis described Battier as follows: "Shane Battier is widely regarded inside the NBA as, at best, a replaceable cog in a machine driven by superstars.
In his role as betrayer, he is both a crucial cog and the ultimate sinner driven to suicide through shame.
But Gyp was only a cog in a larger gangster driven machine that put what we now know as Rock and Roll on everyone's map and it wasn't love of the musical genre that fueled this effort.
According to court papers, they plan to tell the jury that Mr. Mohamed felt remorse about the attack and, moreover, was an expendable, minor cog in a terrorist machine built and driven by other, more powerful men.
From having been driven by our ideals, we are as much a cog in the machinery as anyone else - just with more responsibility.
Located immediately above the valves, this type of camshaft is driven either by a vertical shaft and bevel gears or by a cog belt.
More precisely, the interaction of the air-gap harmonics (stator slot driven) and the magnetomotive force harmonics (magnet driven) produces a high cogging torque (CT).
Yet year after year, driven by the value we randomly assign to handsome slabs of meat, the cogs are set in motion.
There was no clamour for the Welshman to be driven out of Anfield: he had done pretty well in his four years at Liverpool without securing a regular spot and he was a smooth cog in Wales' glorious Euro 2016 campaign.
