Sentence examples for a central term from inspiring English sources

Sustainability has become a central term in environmental planning and policy since the late 1980s.

Not providing just one simple definition of what it means to be "just" – a central term for many texts on the Contemporary Civilization syllabus – Aristotle underscores in this discussion of equity his belief in the manifold and malleable nature of ethical reasoning.

Debates were about the nature of heaven rather than its existence, and heaven remained a central term for philosophers holding widely different viewpoints.

In Hasan's view, choice is a central term that enables the analyst to enter into an explicit discourse on how language as a semiotic system becomes a powerful resource for the exchange of meanings in social contexts (Hasan 1995).

And a central term is gerogenic conversion or geroconversion.

There is a price to pay: if we term cells as systems then we confuse a central term of a scientific model of explanation with an ontological entity.

Just as suffrage represented feminism's vision of the political future, friendship represented its vision of the personal future, the central term of a renegotiated sexual contract.

The two states will pay the Penn Central $2.9‐million a year for 60 years for use of its trackage between Wood lawn and Grand Central Term inal.

In fact, it puts at risk a central, long-term American objective: drawing China into the club of prosperous, rule-bound and democratic nations.

Rigorously documenting (or disproving) the existence of such major transitions and their evolutionary consequences is a central long-term goal of our studies of lepidopteran phylogeny.

Juha Saatsi (2005) denies premise (a) and claims that there can be approximate truth of the causal roles postulated by a scientific theory without its central terms necessarily successfully referring (see also Chakravartty, 1998).