Sentence examples for primary force of from inspiring English sources

And they note that while the consent decree has been the primary force of change, the department and the city have created qualifications and programs that all but ensure that more minority applicants will be hired.

Rochester provides a hectic portrait of a world whose futile indulgence has much in common with today's celebrity circuit, but the primary force of the poetry is felt at the intersection of talent, fury and the frenzied attempt to make something out of seeming nothingness.

From 1945 to 1988, villagers became the primary force of landscape degradation.

Darwin and Wallace (1858) and Darwin (1859) suggested that the primary force of evolution is natural selection of preexistent varieties.

"We find again the same orientation of the primary force of thought," says Cohen, "the abandonment of perception and its object constituted by empirical man: for the prophet, this [abandonment] is the ascent toward humanity; for the Greek, this abandonment amounts to the passage toward the state".

The Polish Crown army in Ukraine, led by Prince Poniatowski, and supported by Kościuszko, was about 17,000, 21,000 or 24,000 strong (Derdej distinguishes between the primary force of 17,000 and Prince Michał Lubomirski's reserve division, of 4,500 ).

All things act solely according to their own nature, starting from the primary forces of cold and heat.

It was an obsession that bordered on mental illness, but, as we've learned in the past few decades, the obsessions of the mentally ill are the primary force behind most of our greatest inventions.

8 It was Mincer who first emphasised the role of the rise in the wage of women as a primary force explaining the growth of female labour supply.

Not long afterward, having decided that the Whig Party was weak and outmoded, Seward became a primary force in the birth of the Republican Party.

Lamar Smith, a congressman from Texas, was the primary force behind a set of sweeping reforms to both legal and illegal immigration.