Sentence examples for the axis upon which from inspiring English sources

Military dictatorship and Islamism became the axis upon which Egyptian politics revolved.

"The axis upon which a lot of this turns is Bush's experience against Ann Richards," said Richard N. Bond, a former chairman of the Republican Party.

"The senator was the axis upon which the wheel spun," said Mitch Rose, who was chief of staff for Mr. Stevens from 1996 to 2000 and is serving now as the family's spokesman.

The pianist Glenn Gould, in his 1966 essay "The Prospects of Recording," described the impact that Edison's invention ultimately had on the significance of live music, declaring fully defunct the idea that "the concert is the axis upon which the world of music revolves".

Then I understood the mental shift, the answered prayer, the new axis upon which Jacob dreamed that sleepless night.

Not only did that result kill the notion of British party politics, it demonstrated that in Scotland "nation" (and its associated identity) had become the dominant axis upon which discourse, public policy and even crude party politics turned.

We aim to deepen the understanding of 'rights' as a socio-cultural axis upon which many discourses turn.

It represents the axis on which the world turns.

It is the axis on which the Chiefs spin.

Mothers sprawled over children" -- has become "the axis around which his life winds".

That is the axis on which the Rams spin -- deep passes.