Sentence examples for centre of knowledge from inspiring English sources

A number of Members noted FAO's work in statistical data collection and analysis, and acknowledged FAO's importance as a centre of knowledge and expertise on food and agriculture.

"UNICEF's Supply Division in Copenhagen has become a global centre of knowledge on improving the lives of children," said Alan Court, Director of UNICEF's Supply Division.

The AFBs base action plans on extensive water data (quality and quantity needs) and are the centre of knowledge and technical expertise for the government and other interested water users.

The cynical transformation of centres of knowledge into self-sustained enterprises and the constant strive to translate academic activity to administrative language and to a meaningless paper trail that does not interest anyone except the people who create it in order for the system to pat itself on the back, are indications of an era of new barbarity, the new Dark Ages.

By the 21st century it was evident that advanced economies would depend more on human capital than on physical capital and on the production of services rather than the manufacture of goods; as a consequence, cities were shifting from loci of industrial production to centres of knowledge.

As centres of knowledge production, universities/PRIs consistently engage in inventive process, where researchers develop ideas that could be novel and inventive.

Facilitating exit strategies for DFID from providing expensive health sector inputs in middle income countries which should be replacing aid financing with domestic revenues, and optimising their spending through applying know-how from the UK as well as emerging Southern centres of knowledge (see earlier point).

For most of the last 5,000 years, Iraq was a key centre of scientific knowledge.

The society was thus both a centre of spiritual knowledge and a source of social prestige.

By 600 bce Miletus, on the Aegean, had become a centre of geographic knowledge, as well as of cosmographic speculation.

This last line of thought Arnold develops in the second essay, "The Literary Influence of Academies," in which he dwells upon "the note of provinciality" in English literature, caused by remoteness from a "centre" of correct knowledge and correct taste.