Sentence examples for primary engine for from inspiring English sources

For decades, the steamy Pearl River Delta area of southern Guangdong Province served as a primary engine for China's astounding economic growth.

They are confident, he says, because the American university has been the primary engine for economic development in the last hundred years, its growth paralleling the growth of liberal capitalism.

This is, Google says, their primary engine for venture-style investments going forward.

Technology is the primary engine for every component of the trade cycle.

But analyst Juniper Research has put out a new mobile content revenue forecast predicting that purchases on tablets will be the primary engine for growth — ergo: beating out smartphones — in the mobile content market over the next three years.

He also was a firm supporter of China's status as the world's primary engine for economic growth.

Mr. Protti said that the American market was "the primary engine of growth" for Canadian banks.

But China is also a primary engine of growth for international higher education, leading the way in student recruitment, English and Chinese language programmes, transnational education and short-term study abroad.

And a precipitous decline in consumer spending — the primary engine of economic growth for the last decade — could have dire consequences for the labor market, workers' salaries and American industry.

Consumer spending is the primary engine of the economy, accounting for more than two-thirds of gross domestic product.

In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the primary engine of the epidemic is men who buy commercial sex, refuse to use condoms, take multiple wives, or, increasingly, have sex with young girls in the belief that they are "clean" or will cure them of AIDS.