Sentence examples for principal driver in from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile the oil appetite of the growing Chinese economy, the principal driver in the recovery of global demand in recent years, is running at 10 percent higher than a year ago, or 9.5 million barrels a day.

"The business environment is a principal driver in what the future of nuclear energy is in the United States," Alex Flint, the senior vice president for government affairs at the industry's trade association, the Nuclear Energy Institute, said recently.

Tenet's practice of increasing drug prices is "a principal driver in their overall charges," the list prices that resulted in the higher Medicare payments, said Don DeMoro, the executive director of the Institute for Health and Socio-Economic Policy, the group that conducted the study.

It is depressing that the government seems to be following the example of Tony Blair, who ignored consistent advice from the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6 that our Middle East policy – and in particular our Middle East wars – has been a principal driver in the recruitment of Muslims in Britain for terrorism here.

The balance between initial costs and operational costs (environmental, economic and energetic) is directly reflected in the building energy use which, while requiring a higher initial investment, constitutes the principal driver in reducing the carbon footprint of the dwelling.

In the case of direct medical costs, the principal driver in the differences observed was the cost of hospitalization.

Among the signatories were Google, Facebook and Amazon (though one of the letter's organizers, Marvin Ammori, told me that the small and medium-sized companies were the principal drivers in this effort).

In this study we sought to investigate an apparent paradox where SCD-1 is highly expressed in breast cancers and appears to be required for appropriate cell division, although SCD-1 expression is repressed in liver and adipose tissue in response to estrogen, a principal driver of growth in ER-α-positive breast cancer.

However, heritability estimates varied considerably by food group and sex for the 7-y-olds studied: whereas shared environment was the principal driver of intake in girls, genetic predisposition played a more important role in boys.

They have been building what they expect to be the principal driver of change in the industry: a set of three online tools, known as the Higg Index, that measure the social and environmental impact of brands, manufacturing facilities and products.

Changes in transcription factor binding related to sequence variants are thought to be a principal driver of changes in histone modifications, enhancer choice and gene expression [ 17- 19].