driving force

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Toone adds her dad was "the driving force" behind her football, taking her up and down the country for club matches and travelling abroad for England games.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Waller was a driving force behind the Fed’s three rate cuts in the second half of last year.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

The driving force behind this new mandate was a changing mindset in the U.A.E. about the clean energy transition.

From Barron's • May 4, 2026

That fear is still a driving force; Amazon, Meta and Google’s parent all used their quarterly reports three months ago to project big jumps in capital spending this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

All eyes are on an agent: a protagonist, a mover and shaker, a driving force.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker