"the driving factor" is a correct usage of English.
It refers to something that is influencing or prompting someone to do something. For example: "Time was the driving factor in my decision to move away."
It is ultimately the driving factor in everything we do.
"This is the driving factor pushing people into the woods to hunt," he said.
The driving factor is the convergence of voice and audio functions -- phone and music player.
Asked what the driving factor was, she said: "It is a combination.
For him, the driving factor for voting out was the need for change.
it's not really the case, I think, that low interest rates were the driving factor behind the housing bubble.
As in other types of outsourcing, the driving factor in "homework outsourcing," as the practice is known, is the cost.
Is the bottom line the driving factor behind the club allowing the middle school kids to push their sexuality?
In fact, the report said, politics was the driving factor, and only two of the nine prosecutors had negative evaluations.
Students of the theory of interdemocratic peace contend that the structure of national government will be the driving factor.
For most whistleblowers, money is not the driving factor, said Louis Clark, president of the Government Accountability Project.
