"driving motivation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the attitude or frame of mind that motivates a person to work and accomplish goals. For example, you could say "Her driving motivation was to achieve financial freedom and provide an excellent living for her family."
At that time he and Katherine met, Russell said, Tamerlan's driving motivation was boxing.
NL & SW: So what is the driving motivation behind suicide attacks?
What's been the driving motivation behind your work with Google Street View and other demographic research?
That both bands are again battling for world tour supremacy is nothing new, but despite any similarities, the driving motivation behind each of these tours is remarkably different.
That was the driving motivation through my training in New York, and my 10 years spent working in New York theater.
Yet one driving motivation behind Gigerenzer's work is to show that the thrust of this research is wrong: that we are not idiots, chronically misled by our instincts.
The drivers tend to involved in overtaking violations when they perceived the driving motivations would enhance the performance of the behaviour.
In a response to inquiries from MIT Technology Review, State Grid disputed the argument that the broader global interconnection plan won't happen, or that its driving motivations are primarily financial and geopolitical.
A younger audience, and a poorer audience, is not going to pay for news - and one of the driving motivations of most news journalists, whether working for profit-seeking organisations or the BBC, is to have their work put in front of as many people as possible.
These are the driving motivations behind our series of workshops 'Covenant: Collective Behaviors and Networks' that have been held in conjunction with the European Conference and Complex Systems (ECCS).
It's the main purpose behind Lyft's launch of its open platform for autonomous tech, and one of the driving motivations for its Level 5 Autonomous driving center in California.
