A pervading quality of free lyricism and a building from turns close to the ground towards jumps into the air gives the work its central focus.

The study of kinship and social organization is a central focus of cultural anthropology, as kinship is a human universal.

In this painting, Altdorfer places a large tree that is cut off by the margins at the center of the landscape, making it the central axis and focus within the piece.

It also sets forth the redressing of socio-economic differences stemming from colonial-and apartheid-era policies as a central focus of ANC policy.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

The party's central focus of power is the Politburo Standing Committee.

[...] Koheleth's focus on individual experience, in particular the perception of pleasure, bears a significant resemblance to Hellenistic popular philosophy, whose central purpose was to find the way to individual happiness by the use of the powers of reason.

Secular perennialists espouse the idea that education should focus on the historical development of a continually developing common western base of human knowledge and art, the timeless value of classic thought on central human issues by landmark thinkers, and revolutionary ideas critical to historical western paradigm shifts or changes in world view.

The tradition has a focus on community, placing great emphasis on ethical conduct and reverence towards all sentient beings as central to spiritual maturity.

Its central principle is that vanguardism by cadres of small, fast-moving paramilitary groups can provide a focus for popular discontent against a sitting regime, and thereby lead a general insurrection.

According to the book, drinking is a central focus on Mars, where water is scarce.

The focus of modern heraldry is the armorial achievement, or the coat of arms, the central element of which is the escutcheon or shield.

The narrow focus and votebank politics of most parties, even in the central government and central legislature, sidelines national issues such as economic welfare and national security.

The company continued its urban focus with the Society Hill project in central Philadelphia.

During negotiations, anger disrupts the process by reducing the level of trust, clouding parties ' judgment, narrowing parties ' focus of attention and changing their central goal from reaching agreement to retaliating against the other side.

A walled marble-paved precinct was constructed around the temple, making it a central focus of the ancient city.

Stallman counter-charges that OSI's pragmatic focus on a model for software development and marketing ignores what he considers to be the central " ethical imperative " and the focus on " freedom " that underlies free software, as he defines it, and blurs the distinction with semi-free or wholly proprietary software.

The story of Murray and Minor later served as the central focus of a popular 20th-century book about the creation of the OED.

Listed below are a few of the most canonical or important thinkers, and especially philosophers whose central focus was in political philosophy and / or who are good representatives of a particular school of thought.

Their central focus was on logos or what we might broadly refer to as discourse, its functions and powers.

The death and resurrection of Jesus is a central focus of Christianity.

Rewriting the state constitution became Marshall's central focus as governor, and after the General Assembly refused to call a constitutional convention he began to seek alternative means by which to have a new constitution adopted.

Belgium actively seeks improved relations with the new democracies of central and eastern Europe through such fora as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, EU association agreements, and NATO's Partnership for Peace with the former Warsaw Pact countries and several others.

Other partners in the development of a strategy for the regeneration of central Purley include the Purley & Woodcote Residents ' Association and Purley Rotary who actively participate in the Neighbourhood Partnership forums hosted by Croydon Council.

When Major League Baseball added two teams in 1993, bids were offered for two new triple-A franchises, and the Maryland Baseball Limited Partnership ( which owned the Suns and also the single-A Frederick Keys ) got into the running to put one of the new franchises in central Maryland.

However, with the recent Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership Reintroduction Project, Whooping Cranes nested naturally for the first time in 100 years in the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in central Wisconsin, USA.

World Vision International is the organizational structure of the World Vision Partnership which operates today as a federation of interdependent national offices with three different levels of central control.

There have been no confirmed sightings since 2000 and in 2010 the World Pheasant Association ( WPA ) received funding from the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund to survey forests in the central Vietnam provences of Quang Binh and Quang Tri.

The Redfern-Eveleigh-Darlington or RED project ( also known as the Redfern-Waterloo Partnership Program ) was instigated by the state government of New South Wales to redevelop the run-down housing and railway yards in the suburbs of Redfern, Eveleigh and Darlington to the South-West of Sydney central business district to ease the pressure of Sydney's growing population by housing more people near the city centre.

The John Lewis Partnership, owners of a department store in central Edinburgh, called for reduced charging hours in the city centre to reduce the impact on retail shops and improvements to the public transport system before the charge began.

The Ithaca Downtown Partnership will strive to preserve and develop the central downtown core as the region ’ s center for banking and finance, business and professional offices, government and community services, downtown residences, and as a retail destination highlighted by specialty shops, restaurants, arts and entertainment.

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying stores, where meat cutters will not be required.

The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen.

One matter of concern to the complete effectiveness of pool operations is the lack of adequate central garage facilities.

You can install it yourself -- this is a central system that will cool every part of your house.

Best of all, central air conditioning is something you can afford.

No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.

Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

The idea of a central tank with lines to each house is not in itself a novelty.

On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.

The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.

The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.

Furthermore, conditioned reactions are fundamentally altered when the hypothalamic sympathetic reactivity is augmented beyond a critical level, and several types of behavioral changes probably related to the degree of central autonomic `` tuning '' are observed.

It has further been shown that: ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ;

And in the economy of the book it is not peripheral but central.

This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.