"There were more than 20 burnt to the ground," said Ali. Unity state, which provides much of the crude on which South Sudan's fledgling economy relies, has become the centrepiece of a power struggle between government forces and an emerging armed opposition.
Politicians, businesses and green campaigners from other countries rallied to the support of the president after the US supreme court put a temporary freeze on new rules to clean up coal-fired power plants, the centrepiece of Obama's climate plan.
Locating the new research institute in Canberra would place it close to the Snowy Mountains Scheme, which was planned to be the centrepiece of a new nuclear power industry.
The centrepiece of the entrenchment of state power is a proposed change to the constitution, establishing recourse to a "civil state of emergency" in addition to powers adopted in 1955 during the Algerian war of independence, in order – says François Hollande – to confront "war of another type", as presented by jihadi terrorism.
Strikingly it appears both the BMA and the Royal College of General Practitioners have not been asked to the summit, even though the transfer of greater powers to doctors is a centrepiece of the changes.
Mr Calderón chose to make security and battling powerful drug mafias the centrepiece of his presidency.
Mr Karamanlis made continued Greek support for Turkey's EU accession bid the centrepiece of his foreign policy when he came to power.
The supreme court agreed to block Barack Obama's clean power plan on Tuesday, raising fears that the centrepiece of his climate change plan could be overturned.
Sure, the lyrics were ad-libbed and largely meaningless, but Hudson's extraordinary Lowrey organ intro (improvised from Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor) and the heaving, inexorable groove of the song's central riff elevates what might have been a throwaway number into a thing of indomitable power and majesty, which for many years served as the centrepiece of their live set.
Its centrepiece is a dizzying dance for himself and Eric Martin on turntables powered by washing-machine engines.
