Sentence examples for was driven as from inspiring English sources
noun
Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
- Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
Though each of these priorities has merit, their selection was driven as much by politics as anything else.
Pondering this last month, Eitan Haber, the veteran Israeli journalist and former press secretary to Rabin, suggested Netanyahu's resistance to progress towards a deal was driven as much by desire for his own political survival as by ideological objections.
"The spread of domestic plants was driven as much by taste and culinary value as the search for calories," he argues.
Indeed, at least in the eyes of one participant, the rickets and osteomalacia work at Middlesex was driven as much by the development of a newer and more precise method of assaying biochemical activity, and by the need for a research topic suited to the deployment of that new tool, as by the "hot" clinical problem.
The company, he said, was "driven as much by market demand as by anything".
It is also true that the issue was driven, as ever, by the army.
Soccer allegiances in Brazil are driven as much by social status as by geography.
It should be driven as far as it can go that way.
But most recycling programs have been driven as much by raw economics as by activism.
The public embrace of genetics may be driven as much by wishful thinking as scientific truth.
Come, Been and Gone is driven as much by his early training as by his obvious love for this music.
