Nonetheless, there is something curiously English in the monomania of the festival's prime movers.

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After all, the prime movers driving this sea change include statesmen as well as entrepreneurs, social activists as well as plutocrats.

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But its prime movers are reactionaries seeking a return to rule by the traditional elites under the figleaf of a partly elected parliament.

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His wife, Eleanor, was one of the prime movers behind the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, whose 50th anniversary will be celebrated on December 10th.

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One of the prime movers behind the drive to get the carnival moved from its traditional west London home also dropped in to Notting Hill to see how things were going.

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The UK Government's position is being backed by both Portugal - which holds the Presidency of the EU - and Belgium, which has been one of the prime movers of the anti-Freedom Party campaign.

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He was also one of the prime movers behind the New Economic Partnership for Africa (Nepad) - a vision of transforming Africa which resulted in endless speeches and meetings around the continent but little else.

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The prime-movers behind this initiative at the moment are Senators Fred Thompson (R-TN) and Robert Torricelli (D-NJ), the chairman and a senior Democrat respectively on the Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee.

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It was supposed to involve just retired Career Ambassador Thomas Pickering and me, but wound up featuring as well comments from one of the prime-movers behind the denuclearization initiative, former Reagan strategic arms negotiator Max Kampelman.

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Themes that benefit Candidate Kerrys run for the White House have also been promoted by far more sophisticated, visible and better-funded active measures campaigns run by Tides-supported operations like MoveOn.org and International ANSWER, two of the prime-movers behind opposition to President Bushs War on Terror.

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Subsequently, large agribusiness concerns like Archer Daniels Midland have consistently served as prime-movers in campaigns to sell high technology to the Soviet Union, to eliminate impediments like the Jackson-Vanik and Stevenson amendments and to oblige the U.S. taxpayer to assume the substantial risks associated with trade and investment in the USSR risks that commercial enterprises and banks find unacceptable.

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In fact, along with President Obama's pick for the next CIA Director, John Brennan, and his new White House Chief of Staff, Dennis McDonough, she has been one of the prime-movers behind the administration's efforts to deny jihad's plain meaning, namely holy war, and to submit to at least its stealthy, subversive and pre-violent version as practiced by the Muslim Brotherhood.

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