mainspring

The Fountain’s tradition of extending a wide communal embrace, welcoming underrepresented voices and addressing urgent social concerns, is clearly going to be a mainspring of Caldwell’s leadership.

Its hairspring, mainspring, ruby bearings and a few other parts were sourced from Switzerland.

“It’s how my father taught me. If I don’t wind it consistently, it won’t keep time as well. And if I overwind it, the mainspring might break.”

The question of appropriation is the editorial mainspring of “The Dolphin Letters.”

This was the mainspring of the anti-liberal revolt in the region.