moving spirit

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• ''(jos kärryn työntäjä tapetttu)'' No! Cart has stopped moving! ''(Ei! Kärry lakkasi liikkumasta!)''
• ''(jos kärry liikkuu taaksepäin)'' Cart is moving the wrong way! ''(Kärry on menossa väärään suuntaan!)''

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Englannin sanakirja

moving spirit (englanti > suomi)

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moving spirit englanniksi

1. Someone who provides significant impetus or guidance in a given venture, movement, enterprise etc.

2. 1932, (w), Talleyrand, Folio Society 2010, p. 106:

At the beginning of the year 1804 the most formidable conspiracy which had yet threatened the government and the life of Napoleon was discovered. … Georges Cadoudal, the Breton peasant, who was the very soul of the royalist party, was the moving spirit.

3. 1999, Joyce Crick, translating Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Oxford 2008, p. 163:

We had formed a conspiracy against an unpopular and ignorant teacher. Its moving spirit (transterm) was a fellow-student who seems since then to have taken Henry VIII of England as his model.

4. 2002, (w), The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 131:

Pompadour was the moving spirit in the elegant refurbishment of most of the royal residences, and in the development of a number of minor residences such as Crécy, Bellevue and the Trianon, in all of which she indulged the king's penchant for intimacy and privacy.

5. 2005, Tony Russell, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2005:

A couple of years later, he met Timothy Duffy, who was the moving spirit behind the Music Maker Relief Foundation.

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