"engine of history" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is a figurative way of describing something that drives or shapes the course of history. Example: "Many historians believe that the invention of the printing press was the engine of history, as it allowed for the widespread dissemination of knowledge and ultimately led to important social and political changes."
Mating is the engine of history.
The engine of history, he argues, is sibling rivalry.
— suggests that the engine of history might just be idling loudly.
At that point something happened that made the Henderson case an engine of history.
Like his 2008 book, "Indignation," "Nemesis" is a modest undertaking: a small-scale portrait of an era and of an earnest young man who finds the unstoppable engine of history steamrolling over his life.
The signal illusion from which America has to awake in Iraq and everywhere else is that it serves God's providence or (for those with more secular beliefs) that it is the engine of history.
To take a single example, on one page Harris writes that "ruthlessness is the great driving motor of human history," while on the very next page he tells us that the "pattern of accidents and/or unintended consequences that are subsequently taken up and turned into a deliberate strategy is the driving engine of human history".
'The system of causes,' he wrote, 'controlling the fate of every one of us, and now extending over the whole globe, makes it reverberate throughout at every shock; there are no more questions that can be settled by being settled at one point.' Valery could sense that the West was no longer the sole engine of global history.
But the evolution of engine technology has relegated the layout of the original Hemi engine to history's dustbin; it is left for the engine cover in the Chrysler 300C and Dodge Magnum models to reflect the tradition in a decorative, curved-roof shape.
To avoid unintended policy conflict, here are some scenarios Kerry should urgently discuss with US trade representative Froman: The US may need to impose sharply escalating mileage standards on automobiles and trucks that all but make combustion engines a relic of history.
Churchill saw that he was a fierce nationalist who had found a way of resurrecting and winning the obedience of the great engine of recent European history, the German Army.
