Sentence examples for been 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.

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.

"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.

Proteins play a key role as therapeutics in a number of diseases and protein crystallization is a central activity in the pharmaceutical industry.

Categorization is a central activity of socializing new workers into the workplace and contributes to the building of mutual understanding about work-related categories.

Product selection and the shelf space reserved to each product is a central activity for retailers and Shelf Out of Stock (SOOS) events are often strongly related to planogram design.

Cooking together is a central activity of my wolf pack and is accompanied by some dancing music, free-flowing Girlfriend Wine and the constant chatter of shared secrets and stories interrupted by comments like "I think this needs more salt".

Because modeling is a central activity of scientists, it is essential for our students—our future scientists to engage in the activity of modeling.

Taken in this spirit, Leader's book throws up many fascinating observations about the ways in which "keeping our hands busy has always been a central human activity" while idle ones have been condemned as the tools of Satan.

Evaluation is always a central activity when practicing usability in an iterative product development process.