noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
prime mover
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He was a prime mover in the bid to get better pay for West Indian cricketers.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
prime
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But it is the people of Bishop Auckland who can rightly feel proud that they were the prime movers .
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Since Public Opinion is supposed to be the prime mover in democracies, one might reasonably expect to find a vast literature.
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The other prime mover was that the slump is now in its dying throes.
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The press had become a prime mover in determining government policy and influencing public opinion.
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Nor was he thinking about who really was the prime mover , for he thought he knew that already.
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The prime mover was George Dodson.
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If Darwin were alive today, he would surely place mankind as the prime mover in global evolution.
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In Krashen's theory, acquisition is the grand initiator of messages and the prime mover in communication.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Prime Mover
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Aristotle proposes that the Primum Mobile turns as a result of a craving for perfection generated in it by the Prime Mover.
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But I think there's a more powerful force in this universe than the Prime Mover.
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He must place his trust in the Prime Mover.
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If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying.
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Spike couldn't rant against the Prime Mover.
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The universe is animated by an all-pervasive aspiration to a higher state, a greater perfection as embodied in the Prime Mover.
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This is a holy war, and only the Prime Mover can decide who lives and who dies.
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When our life systems are terminated we will again return to the Prime Mover.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Saturn is the slowest mover of all the planets.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although, as a rule, the young are generally the movers, while the old tend to be primarily shakers.
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As the movers and shakers of this peculiar saga, Bonnaire and Huppert are unnerving and fascinating to watch together.
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In doing so, organizers reportedly alienated traditional movers and shakers.
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It would certainly include statements by successful movers of amendments and new clauses to Bills.
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The prime mover was George Dodson.