the moving spirit

The companion may have been involved, but she was certainly not the moving spirit in the matter.

"You might even say the Syrian government is the moving spirit behind it."

And the moving spirit was, 'We're all going to have to live here together.' "

Yet her evasive testimony convinced the trial judge that she was "the moving spirit" behind the attacks.

Major continued as editor until 1956 and was considered the moving spirit of the organisation until his death in 1961.

The moving spirit and the director of the festival is Roman Gutek.

The moving spirit in the exercise is to create opportunities for the youth of the State by laying foundation of a knowledge society.

Mrs Jim Trent is the moving spirit behind it, I understand.

He is the moving spirit and the beacon behind this novel project in establishing various educational institutions in India.

Jefferson was the moving spirit of that body and the author of the Rockfish Gap report.

Shastri remained the moving spirit behind the Vidyapith all through.

Wonder is that young Dedalus the moving spirit.

The moving spirit is designer Bill Dudley who has created what he calls "the world's first fully 360-degree projected movie for live theatre".

She was the moving spirit behind that. . . Oh, I didn't mean to make a pun.

He was still the moving spirit behind Woodrock, a pointedly interracial organization founded to fight prejudice and help young people.

The designer does not forfeit elegance, but she does add excitement to her spring collection, at a time when "classic" seems to be the moving spirit.

The moving spirit in founding the society in 1877 was the Baptist pastor Alfred Tilly.

"I am neither an impresario nor a tycoon, and impresarios and tycoons are often the moving spirit behind cultural organizations of this sort."

In any ease, the Saures, as you may not know, were the moving spirits behind the In-golstadt festival.

In 1848 he was the moving spirit in the organization of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia.

Mother Angela was the moving spirit in the establishment in 1865 of the "Ave Maria", to whose pages she made many contributions.

Although Cassius was "the moving spirit" in the plot against Caesar, winning over the chief assassins, Brutus became their leader.

Casas and Rusinol were the moving spirits of Modernismo.

Today, Paul Robeson Jr., who some other signatories claim was the moving spirit behind the initial protest, still objects to the play but not so vociferously.

The tiresome Lady Franklin, the ambitious widow of Sir John, was the moving spirit in a campaign to discredit Rae.