motive force
motive power

Here, too, we must continue to be a motive force.

At times they seemed to be the motive force for the professional army.

Some called her the true motive force of the Domination.

I do not think they were causing significant motive forces.

You've got to get behind the things that are happening and find out the motive force that's making them happen.

If knowledge isn't sufficient, can faith provide the motive force?

I think - no, I'm sure - that violence was the real motive force.

All partake on their own, but who is the motive force?"

These small but telling changes seem like signs of a motive force that is making the repetition necessary.

Without competition, there will be no progress, no motive force.

Other weapons use the compression or expansion of gases as their motive force.

The bag was undulating, as if possessed by a motive force within itself.

Who can say the cause, the reason, the motive force of these cataclysms?"

Mechanical men were common in the middle ages, and frequently steam had been their motive force.

I will not reveal the outcome of the rendezvous, since it is the motive force behind the entire book.

How can we help to destroy the myth and thus strike at the very motive force of this organization?

Their art activities serve as power generators, providing a motive force for social transformation.

There is no motive force for evolution in our universe beyond that of adherence to physical law.

As the society existed only with each individual, their writings and correspondence, the secretary was the motive force.

All that was needed was a new motive force.

I think that the motive force of all our actions is, after all, personal happiness.

First she used water as the motive force, and her "aquamobiles" gained recognition across America.

He is the motive force behind the Sons of Hammon.

He is also the motive force behind numerous international and intercultural collaborations.

The motive power for this appears to have been human.

When you move any muscle, light energy is the motive power.

Without any sound of motive power the car backed and turned.

The road also bought its first new motive power in over ten years.

This motive power almost surely will be with us for some time.

At the time it was considered as a big advance in motive power.

The railroad was known most for its unusual motive power.

At one time they were known as motive power depots.

Moral values are the motive power of a man's actions.

Did you ask me to name man's motive power?

"We might as well test the motive power under miniaturization."

All motive power on Cloral works by much the same means.

The line closed too early for diesel motive power to be introduced.

Contact somebody and see if you can get readings on this thing's motive power.

There was also a motive power depot north of the station, which closed in the 1960s.

It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.

In the spirit world thought is the motive power.

The first motive power on the line were two ten wheelers #50 and #51.

Motive power line was provided by the contractors who had become shareholders in the company.

They became the normal motive power on the branch until its closure.

"Now we are all desperately looking for new sources of motive power to put us back on the tracks."

These vehicles usually carry motive power in each individual unit.

Motive power for the move was a series of hydraulic rams.

He was absolutely motionless, as though some motive power had ceased.

I must look over the field of electrical invention as applied to motive power.