Sentence examples for formal center from inspiring English sources

"At the formal center of cowboy poetry is the ballad," the medieval form used in many of the oldest folk songs in English, Mr. Stanley writes.

"The use of glass-bead hangings for interior decoration was an 18th-century phenomenon confined mostly to pleasure palaces built away from the formal center of the court," she wrote.

He leads Shefa, an umbrella organization for all his activities and educational institutions, including schools, seminaries and less formal centers of learning for men and women.

That, then, would leave the group with many followers in Gaza, even if its ranks are badly battered, its leaders driven underground and its formal centers of power, through which it might deliver services to its people, are destroyed by Israeli bombs.

Take the formal centers of power: the Guardian Council, which decided there was no voting fraud in the re-election of President Ahmadinejad; the Islamic Consultative Assembly, or Majlis, a parliament; and the Expediency Discernment Council, which was set up in 1988 supposedly to settle disputes between the elected Parliament and the unelected Guardian Council.

The school never before had a formal athletic center.

The city's cross-shaped master plan, with repetitive rows of housing set around a formal administrative center, was designed by Costa, Mr. Niemeyer's old mentor.

Mr. Bo was put under house arrest in March 2012, after being dismissed from his Chongqing post, and he was later moved to a formal detention center.

The building next to it, intended to house a forthcoming "formal justice center," was in a similar state; a dozen Afghans were in the main room of the two-room building, praying and sleeping.

U.C.B. changed that, and now TV producers, including Lorne Michaels, of "Saturday Night Live," cast directly from the New York improv pool.__ In 2005, U.C.B. opened a theatre in L.A., and, in 2006, its first formal training center, in Manhattan.

But as an organization's size increases, so does the likelihood that it is running under a more formal call center environment.