Neighbourhoods were centred on existing or historic ones, though delineation was adjusted to account for the pattern and history of development, neighbourhood age, land use, topography, and surficial geology.
Postal research efforts were centred on improving productivity, staff working conditions, and service to the public.
Historically, all business operated at a small scale and were centred on the individual artisan.
They were centred on the small settlement of Pagan on the Irrawaddy River.
Many early human cultures were centred on possession of the horse.
Away from this central core, more-isolated settlements were centred on mines, mission sites, and military outposts.
After a brief period studying the flute, she realised that her interests were centred on literature and in 1982 she entered Queen Mary College to study English.
Thein Sein's spokesman and information minister, Ye Htut, said Aung San Suu Kyi's 45-minute talks with the president, a former general, were centred on the transition.
A humanist, after all, would hardly have made as many films as he did that were centred on both amours passionnels and crimes passionnels.
The finds here were centred on the remains of a man who had been buried along with grave goods including an axe, two daggers, and items of jewellery.
Among novelists of the first half of the century, Aquilino Ribeiro was a prolific writer whose themes often were centred on his native region of Beira.
