«That's the fundamental animating principle of Facebook.» (vox.com)
This is, in fact, the core animating principle of social media: people are able to craft and spread the messages that matter to them. (politics.co.uk)
Some in the charter school movement, viewing autonomy as its most important animating principle, responsible for so much of the innovation and energy in the 3,300 charter schools across the country, argue that the testing regimen at the heart of the standards movement and NCLB will leave charters hidebound, soulless, bureaucratized. (educationnext.org)