As chairman of the Senate's Finance Committee, this relatively unknown figure has emerged as a central force in the struggle over health reform.Barack Obama has made health care a domestic priority.
Through its new Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood is poised for the first time to win a dominant political role, potentially positioning itself as a central force in drafting the next constitution and establishing an Islamist-run government in the most populous and influential Arab state.
But her friends, family members and campaign officials described her as a central force in Mr. Schwarzenegger's campaign, a unique figure who brought an unusual command of politics that came from growing up as a Kennedy, but also working as a journalist.
Robert Willey, Ms. Wagner's husband, manager and agent for the last 52 years, described his wife as "a central force, the tent-pole character, who holds everything up in 'As the World Turns.' " This year, the show received 12 Daytime Emmy Award nominations, including one for Outstanding Daytime Drama, which it won in 1987, 1991, 2001 and 2003.
Mr. Green and Mr. Ferrer made clear that they held different views on the extent to which the attack would affect the life of New York's next mayor: Mr. Green repeatedly described it as a central force that would require planning and preparation, while Mr. Ferrer said the city had to take pains to make certain that it does not abandon other problems in order to deal with rebuilding New York.
A simplified model for confined compression of granular materials is considered, which idealizes the collection of particles as a (central) force network.
One focal point of his piece is recent comments by Times assistant managing editor Glenn Kramon, who (as I said above) was a central force behind the paper's sustained focus on energy and climate since the "Energy Challenge" series began in 2006.
More generally, the LRL vector is conserved in all problems in which two bodies interact by a central force that varies as the inverse square of the distance between them; such problems are called Kepler problems.
Without Brazil as a central buttressing force, constructing a viable, cohesive and continental-wide leftist project could prove daunting.
In analyzing the history of Western societies, Weber focused on rationalism as a unique and central force shaping all Western institutions, including economics, politics, religion, family, stratification systems, and music.
With Islam pushing aside nationalism as the central force behind the politics of identity, Christians who played important roles in various national struggles find themselves left out.
