Sentence examples for centered on itself from inspiring English sources

Not only has the doyen of United States-China studies made revolution the title and "class struggle" one of the themes of his new book, but he also has stressed the "historical continuity and distinctive culture" of a China that is centered on itself and - until very recent times - apparently impervious to the waves of modernization that have broken against its shores from without.

Such criticism, according to Brague, completely misconceives the nature of European civilization: "No culture was ever so little centered on itself and so interested in [others] as Europe" (p. 134).

Progression here will be from a naïve and immediate concept of an object as simple self-sufficient thing, a thing with its identity centered on itself, through the more complex idea of an object as grasped from within the interstices of physical and chemical thought, to the models of teleological and living systems.

Over the last week, as the rival investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection and Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America, reports centered on Morgan Stanley selling itself to Wachovia or another commercial bank.

My mind centered on one thing.

Since Monday, most of the talk about the Boston Marathon bombing has centered on the city itself — narrowing in on the spot on Boylston Street, where a finish line was turned, as one runner said, into "a war zone".

By Ian Crouch April 19, 2013 Since Monday, most of the talk about the Boston Marathon bombing has centered on the city itself — narrowing in on the spot on Boylston Street, where a finish line was turned, as one runner said, into "a war zone".

While the two cultures share common elements (primarily centered on the science itself), there are a number of critical differences that your education which inevitably takes place in academia will not prepare you for.

The next big question for companies moving beyond email is "How can we actually get more done?" Asana is focused on turning communication into action, and reorienting the software we use every day to be centered on the work itself".

This pattern only concerned the support relationships of those people with addictions whose dyad activities were centered on the pair itself (e.g. meeting in café, talking while walking), rather than on some other activity (e.g. meeting to take computer to repair shop or to research new art ideas).

The survey came with the authority of early arrival, though, and, like MTV itself, it centered on a matter crucial to pop culture's futures markets.