Sentence examples for principal engine from inspiring English sources

In many other countries, small businesses are a principal engine of economic growth.

People are accustomed to the idea that investment is the principal engine of China's extraordinary expansion.

So far, it has not hurt consumption, the principal engine of the American economy.

Russia and Brazil have both fallen into recession, while China, the principal engine of world growth, has seen a sharp contraction in overall economic activity.

Energy consumption is falling in both industrialized nations like the United States and developing countries like China, which had been the principal engine of new growth over the past decade.

Describing the changes in AOL's business, Mr. Case said he believed that online advertising, once the principal engine of AOL's profits and growth, would become less important than other sources of revenue, like subscriptions, fees for premium services and sales of goods and services to members online.

China's economy has been among the principal engines of global growth, and its expansion roared to near 11% this year.

When we look across the Pacific we see that even China and India, the global economy's principal engines of growth, can't escape the toll exacted by high energy prices.

Programs like these make me wonder how long America's higher education system will remain the world's principal research engine.

The company said its health care unit was "the principal growth engine for Bayer's business in the third quarter," with sales climbing 73percentto to 3.48 billion euros ($4.56 billion).

On the other hand, the gas turbine remains the principal propulsion engine among naval combat vessels because of the high power that can be produced from very low weights and volumes of machinery.