Sentence examples for prime engine from inspiring English sources

" 'You're in debt, and you're in trouble.' " For decades, that envy has been a prime engine of economic growth.

These conditions produced a remarkably robust banking system, one that was intensely competitive and served as a prime engine of Scottish economic growth.

Clearly he's interested in the brute force of sound, and the prime engine of that interest has seemed to be the guitar.

Dissatisfaction from the economic crisis was the prime engine behind Mr. Suharto's ouster, leading to riots and weeks of student protests.

After more than a decade in which private companies have been the prime engine of China's economic miracle, the Chinese government is eager to control more of that wealth — even if that means running roughshod over private companies.

The last elections were boycotted by many Sunni Muslims, the minority in Iraq who held power for decades under Saddam Hussein and were the prime engine for the deadly insurgency during this war.

Around every corner in Matera, it seemed, I came across clusters of new residents — the prime engines of revitalization in the Sassi.

China's housing market has been one of the prime engines of economic growth in the past decade, and recently a sharp upturn in prices has reignited fears about inequality and a housing bubble.

Joylessness is one of the prime engines of Wilson's new book, which sets out to examine all the ways in which, in a world of seeming abundance and choice, our food is becoming degraded to the point where it makes us ill – and to unpick our current strategies for coping with this toxic environment.

Recognizing that the excellence and hard work of postdocs are among the "prime engines" that makes scientific advancement possible, the J. David Gladstone Institutes set out to redefine its postdoctoral fellows program in September 1998.

With Russia gone away, the great economic pump-priming engine created by the Pentagon to protect us from the Russians might be hard to justify.