Sentence examples for the primary force of from inspiring English sources

From 1945 to 1988, villagers became the primary force of landscape degradation.

And they note that while the consent decree has been the primary force of change, the department and the city have created qualifications and programs that all but ensure that more minority applicants will be hired.

Rochester provides a hectic portrait of a world whose futile indulgence has much in common with today's celebrity circuit, but the primary force of the poetry is felt at the intersection of talent, fury and the frenzied attempt to make something out of seeming nothingness.

Darwin and Wallace (1858) and Darwin (1859) suggested that the primary force of evolution is natural selection of preexistent varieties.

"We find again the same orientation of the primary force of thought," says Cohen, "the abandonment of perception and its object constituted by empirical man: for the prophet, this [abandonment] is the ascent toward humanity; for the Greek, this abandonment amounts to the passage toward the state".

The Polish Crown army in Ukraine, led by Prince Poniatowski, and supported by Kościuszko, was about 17,000, 21,000 or 24,000 strong (Derdej distinguishes between the primary force of 17,000 and Prince Michał Lubomirski's reserve division, of 4,500 ).

All things act solely according to their own nature, starting from the primary forces of cold and heat.

It was an obsession that bordered on mental illness, but, as we've learned in the past few decades, the obsessions of the mentally ill are the primary force behind most of our greatest inventions.

But the most potent foe and the primary force behind the spate of closures and abandoned projects—is economic.

Lamar Smith, a congressman from Texas, was the primary force behind a set of sweeping reforms to both legal and illegal immigration.

Betsey Cushing Whitney (1908-1998) was a noted philanthropist in the fields of medicine, education, and the arts; a member of the Defense Advisory Committee advocating policies for American servicewomen in the 1950s; and the primary force behind the establishment of the Greentree Foundation.