Sentence examples for firmly center from inspiring English sources

LONDON — Extended spending cuts, including a fresh squeeze on welfare payments, were announced by the British government on Wednesday, ensuring that the politics of austerity remain firmly center stage in the run-up to the country's next elections.

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The prints featured in Salami Dreamin'  firmly center the elderly lady by eliminating almost everything from the images but Doll herself.

Nonetheless, it remains firmly centered in its traditional heartlands — Burgundy in France, Tuscany in Italy, California in the United States.

Ms. Ingolfsson produced a tone that is firmly centered, gracefully rounded and tinted to match the score at hand.

Ms. Bouder took a nasty spill after her entrance as Dewdrop at this matinee, but she picked herself up to show off her usual firmly centered form.

He particularly appreciated the solidity of the facade — clearly and firmly centered by the entry door and the bowed-out stone balcony on the second floor.

Mr. Ridding's background and appointment signals that the group is firmly centered on the business daily, with its distinctive bisque-colored newsprint, and its prominence in fast-growing Asian markets.

Many choral ensembles are firmly centered on performing the music of the past: either the early-music repertory prized by such groups as New York's Tenet or Boston's Blue Heron, or else the big masterworks that come from what might be called the choral long nineteenth century, from the capacious Baroque of Handel's "Messiah" to the mid-twentieth-century Impressionism of Duruflé's Requiem.

As co-chairs, the three women are working to forge partnerships with diverse organizations nationwide, seeking to transform an event started almost exclusively by white women into a movement that's firmly centered on the experiences and interests of women of color, LGBTQ women, Muslim women and more.

Clear-eyed, with their bank balance fixed firmly at center stage, Karlette and Dorion Fuchs had steeled themselves against the more obvious fascinations of the Brooklyn neighborhood's famous turn-of-the-20th-century brownstones when they were house-hunting last year.