The phrase "a central position in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the importance or significance of a particular role, location, or concept within a larger context.
Example: "The researcher held a central position in a groundbreaking study that changed the field of medicine."
Alternatives: "a key role in a" or "a pivotal place in a".
This is the first time that Pistorius' disability has occupied such a central position in a murder trial that has stretched over 10 weeks.
Actually, what he has to show for it is encyclopedic knowledge — he rhapsodized for 15 minutes about "Bam Bam," a 1982 hit by Sister Nancy, and would not let a reporter leave without buying a dozen carefully chosen singles — and a central position in a network of collectors who, he said, found him even during a period when he had disconnected his phone.
Conventionally, the matrix stiffness method, a subset of finite element analysis, tends to occupy a central position in a typical syllabus, with a special focus on plane frames providing a bridge between basic structural components with pedagogical clarity and real-world structures.
If stressful events are more accessible to memory and more often recovered, they might assume a central position in a person's identity.
Lastly, fifty years after the discovery of antipsychotics, the capacity of these compounds to produce affective indifference regained a central position in a model proposed by Kapur (2003), in which the effects of these drugs at the behavioral and cellular levels were integrated in a solid framework for the first time.
For its part, generic competence is taken here to be specifically capability and expertise that is potentially common to several organisations in a Triple Helix constellation but may also be embedded in a single organisation that has a central position in a system.
Sparrowe et al. (2001) found that individuals with a central position in an organization's advice network exhibit higher levels of both in-role and extra-role performance.
p53 and GRB2 (growth factor receptor-bound protein) are two prominent hubs having a large number of neighbors and occupying a central position in the network characterized by a high 'betweenness centrality'.
In the wider scope of graph theory, we can also regard node degree as one measure that characterizes centrality, or the extent to which a node is located near a central position in its relationships to other nodes.
As a result, Petrobras has taken a central position in the election this year as all sides have tried to capitalise on the scandal.
