0 someone who has a lot of influence in starting something important:
He was a prime mover in developing a new style of customer-friendly bookshops in the UK.
In these episodes, it is not the presidential entrepreneur as prime mover and consistent driver who engenders change.
Patriotism was to replace poverty as the prime mover of popular politics.
Was he the prime mover behind the resurgence of the ceramics business or did he just claim credit?
In his account the bourgeois family is presented as the initiator of change, the prime mover in the creation of the bourgeois public sphere.
Together, these findings make it increasingly difficult to sustain the argument that elite position taking in 1964 was the prime mover in voter alignment.
Ineluctably rationalizing the division of labor, the state becomes the prime mover in fracturing the human into the stunted and the tunnel-visioned.
Three specialized approaches to this tripartite concept have endured that emphasize one or other of the three as the prime mover or at least as the essential glue.
We are talking about the longer articulated lorries, not about any enlargement in the size of the prime mover.
