Catalytic force

Whether mankind's attempts have been successful or unsuccessful, technology proved to be a major driving catalytic force in any discovery made.

Great journalists are formed by great journalism, excellence being a catalytic force for good.

In other words, can China serve as a catalytic force in a nation's in- dustrialisation journey?

Terming his Nepalese counterpart as a "catalytic force of peace," the Indian Prime Minister said he held an "extensive and productive dialogue" with Pushpa Prachanda on a range of issues related to regional development and cross-border trade between the two countries.

Special Olympics Gateshead Tyne & Wear is quite simply a catalytic force in positively changing people's lives.

He noted that education is also catalytic force to achieve other MDGs, including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger and achieving gender equality, as it provides millions of young people with a chance to start a career and fulfil their aspirations.

And Fenberg tosses them around in his opening pages--about how government "can help people" and become "a catalytic force for progress"--before he lets the lessons from Jones's life grow organically out of the narrative.

When others discouraged me from taking up cutting and make-up as a career I had my mother's support which served as a catalytic force, enabling me to touch the zenith of my career at the age of 24!

Like Pedroia, Andrews was a catalytic force at the top of the batting order, a second baseman who had a knack for making big plays in the field at key times in a game, and a contact hitter with some pop in his bat.

Brown was the catalytic force that helped us gel rid of American apartheid, or legally enforced racial separation.

As Gudjonsdottir's advocacy efforts grew, she became the catalytic force behind a 2001 SCI conference sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO).

I shall also call catalysis the decomposition of bodies by this force." [5] Berzelius' idea of catalytic force recalls the "Vital Force" of the alchemists, who deemed a trace amount of an essential substance necessary to effect the transformation of a much larger quantity of base lead into gold.