animating force
Example Sentences
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The Court did so even though the plaintiffs were not questioning their detention — the animating force behind habeas petitions — and were instead objecting to their looming deportation.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
The losses have prompted questions about the future of education issues as an animating force in Republican politics.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2023
I’ve been trying to cut to, like, the animating force here, and I think that distrust is at the heart of it.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2023
Madison was a genius who was the animating force behind the Constitution.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2022
For all that, Lawrence remained unmistakably the animating force at Livermore, which soon acquired the operational features of a classic Lawrence laboratory.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
