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This was a radical departure from Aristotle's theory that any horizontal motion requires a prime mover.
OUR LEGAL HERITAGE, 5TH ED.S. A. REILLY
He had enriched it: and interest is the prime mover of regard among the people, as well as among the great.
MEMOIRS OF THE PRIVATE LIFE, RETURN, AND REIGN OF NAPOLEON IN 1815, VOL. IFLEURY DE CHABOULON.
The rock of Germanic obstinacy was seated in Vienna, whether Germany was the prime mover in erecting it remains to be proved.
WHAT GERMANY THINKSTHOMAS F. A. SMITH
The preamble of the treaty is framed so as to convey that Eric was the prime mover in the business.
SIR WILLIAM WALLACEA. F. MURISON
But Martin Alonso, the eldest, was the prime mover in all their affairs.
1492MARY JOHNSTON
But in this, as well as in many other instances, the busy brain of Marjory Mason was prime mover.
IRENE IDDESLEIGHAMANDA MCKITTRICK ROS
Gisby has been the prime mover in it—the chief snake in the grass.
JOHNNY LUDLOW, SECOND SERIESMRS. HENRY WOOD
The phonograph ruction was an effect, not a cause of ill-temper, and poor Bob was really a victim, not a prime mover in it.
IT NEVER CAN HAPPEN AGAINWILLIAM DE MORGAN
Putting one thing with another, experts agree that the explosion engine is the prime mover of the future.
THE ROMANCE OF MODERN MECHANISMARCHIBALD WILLIAMS
He was a prime mover in the establishment of the First National Bank.
A HISTORY OF THE CITY OF BROOKLYN AND KINGS COUNTY VOLUME IISTEPHEN M. OSTRANDER

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