Sentence examples for mover of a from inspiring English sources

The presiding officer first recognizes the mover of a proposition or the member of a committee presenting a report and endeavours to alternate recognitions between those favouring and those opposing a question.

The prime mover of a helicopter is a core engine whose gas horsepower is extracted by a power turbine, which then drives the helicopter rotor via a speed-reducing (and combining) gearbox.

It would be highly exaggerated to say that Bin Laden became the equivalent for the United States of what Ronald Reagan was for a declining Soviet empire — the prime mover of a ruinous and ill-considered rush forward (the armaments race for Moscow, and foreign adventures for Washington).

In South Africa and beyond, he is best-known as the prime mover of a very different approach to post-conflict healing: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in which people were offered amnesty in return for full, penitent disclosures of their misdeeds under apartheid.

Jeanne soon finds herself the prime mover of a vast conspiracy that includes not only herself and Villette, but also her dissolute husband, Nicolas (Adrien Brody), and the shady Cagliostro, a Rasputin-like figure who is reputed to be the head of the German Illuminati and who could be played only by Christopher Walken.

It has benefited from notable press buzz from being the first mover of a radical approach.

My friend Ian Katz, a senior editorial figure at the Guardian newspaper in London, and a prime mover of an initiative to create one editorial on climate change that a coalition of newspapers around the world publishes today, writes to ask my opinion of "why no major US newspapers would play".

If successful, this proof establishes that there is a first mover of all moved movers which is not itself material.

Together the Moreys have been the prime movers of a Wildwood revival over the last decade.

But shows like "The X Factor," by dint of their size, end up being market movers of a sort, forcing a panoply of unfashionable styles to the forefront of some section of the popular imagination.

"More than a mover of the mayor, it has been a symbol of the city that mayors have had to deal with," said Hank Sheinkopf, a New York political consultant.