Sentence examples for was an engine of from inspiring English sources

IN THE early 1990s, the South was an engine of America's economy.

What I found instead was an engine of change that challenged conventions I didn't realize needed breaking.

Gladstone, admired orator and one of our greatest prime ministers, asserted that income tax was an "engine of gigantic power for great national purposes".

The baby boomers and their parents who were the hotel chain's first generation of customers aged into people whose willingness to move -- from city to city, state to state and opportunity to opportunity -- was an engine of major demographic change.

The "moral reason" for the war was that Saddam's regime was an engine of mass destruction and genocide that had killed thousands of his own people, and neighbors, and needed to be stopped.

That decline, in part, is because of weakness at About, which once was an engine of growth at the company but is now suffering from a change in the way Google directs traffic to informational sites.

Accountability is an engine of progress.

Mexico City is an engine of economic growth for the country.

It is an engine of biomedical research through the National Institutes of Health.

It may be an engine of liberalisation, but it is weak and unpopular.

The Maktoums understand how sport is an engine of globalisation and an instrument of soft power.