The murder weapons — fossil fuel consumption and food production — are the basic engines of human economic growth.
He argued that management is one of the most important engines of human progress: "the organ that converts a mob into an organisation and human effort into performance".
For sure, Mr. Claypool's strong City Club PowerPoint presentation — an homage to cities as engines of human progress — strayed with an unconsciously class-driven slide contrasting how a C.T.A. janitor earns twice as much as a private contractor janitor at O'Hare.
Starches have fueled the engines of human civilizations for at least the past 14,000 years.
It is important because they bear silent witness to what an engine of human mass destruction Saddam Hussein's regime was.
Play is the primary engine of human growth; it's universal – as much as walking and talking.
It is a turn to the human, and a (perhaps axiomatic, perhaps even dogmatic) posit of human dignity, that turns the engine of human rights, leaving us open to discussion, disagreement, and questioning without ever deserting that first posit.
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 flagellum, a little rotor-like mechanism that propels bacteria in the digestive system, so closely resembles what we would call an engine of human design that proponents of intelligent design have concluded it must be the work of a master designer.
If there's one constant in Hitchcock's career, it's sex — sexual desire, sexual aversion, sexual fear, sexual repression, sexual gratification — as the engine of human society at both its best (its occasional acts of heroism) and its worst (the crimes that he films with such cunning and such unnerving relish).
In a break from strict orthodoxy, Dr. Brenner argued that Freud's concepts of the ego, the id, and the superego were just that, concepts, and that the engine of human motivation was more like a psychological calculator, continuously computing ratios of pleasure versus pain: the gratification that would come from a love affair, for instance, versus the risk of discovery and abiding ache of guilt.
