Sentence examples for a central activity from inspiring English sources

Beginning with Kepler's Paralipomena in 1604, the study of optics had been a central activity of the scientific revolution.

"Our buyers generally want to meet other buyers and so, by providing a central activity, people are benefiting not only from the wine but also from meeting people and everything else that comes with it," Mr. O'Hanlon said.

The promotion of young talent has always been a central activity of the music business, but now, on Web portals like MySpace, which encourage the complete documentation of one's life in constantly updated photographs, video clips, and blog posts, amateurs are growing up in public.

Railroad investment spending, a central activity of the country's stimulus program, more than tripled in the first two months of the year as Beijing tried to strengthen and expand a network that has failed to keep up with demand, particularly in bad weather and on holidays.

"That was a central activity for a lot of our kids in the summer, and that is not available anymore," said Amanda Rothengast, principal of Hoover Community School, where 90 percent of the 880 students qualify for the free or reduced-price lunch program.

That is why gossip is a central activity to every human culture.

Because these neurons have synaptic contact with both afferent inputs and motor neurons and exhibit a true central activity, they appear to constitute the swallowing central pattern generator.

In contrast, food preparation is an expected and central activity in Indian HHs, intrinsically linked to a woman's identity, and food-cultures differ widely even within the different states (7).

In a single-center, randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover, four-arm study, the sensitivity of the blink reflex, as a marker of the central activity of diazepam, fentanyl and ketamine, was assessed versus specific CNS related parameters.

The extent of brain penetration is, however, a poor guide to central activity, especially with potent agonists such as the triptans, since they, in contrast to most other CNS agents that are antagonists, will require only low fractional receptor occupancy to exert central effects [40].

Darifenacin, an M3 antagonist with central activity, was selected to check for possible labelling of M3ACh-R by [11C]AF150(S).