The phrase "strong driver of" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when describing someone or something that has significant influence over a particular outcome or phenomenon. For example: The recent economic upturn was largely a result of the strong driver of business innovation.
With demand from the US only likely to soften further, industry is unlikely to be a strong driver of overall growth in the second half of this year".
"If thimerosal was a strong driver of autism rates, and you remove it from vaccines, you should have seen some sort of decline -- and they didn't".
He cautioned that the housing market might not be a strong driver of growth for very long, because the current rebound is coming from "unsustainably low levels of activity from the depths of the recession".
Brands, inevitably, love it, and Pinterest is a very strong driver of referrals, which gives a clue as to how it plans to monetise – always a tricky issue for social media services that aren't Facebook or Google+.
Even a modest introduction of modern farming methods would have a big impact on farms and the country's labour productivity as a whole.It would also free more workers to look for jobs in factories in cities another strong driver of growth.
Self Analysis and Insights: Women are a strong driver of demand for the self-help book industry.
The government in Singapore is a strong driver of the success of financial innovation in the Asian city-state.
Water itself is shown to be a strong driver of self-colmatation, which is likely because of its intensive physicochemical reaction with pore surface.
The mean scores per company were interpreted thus: 1.0 – 3.0 = weak driver; 3.1 – 5.0 = moderately strong driver; and 5.1 – 7.0 = strong driver of CSR involvement.
The role of drivers acting at parcel level was constant between time periods, which suggests that accession to EEC was a strong driver of change.
"The environmental issue is very much a strong driver of what's going on, and it's not just related to energy pricing," says John Cavalier, the chairman of the global energy group at Credit Suisse.
