Sentence examples for world centrality from inspiring English sources

This was the period where we tried to come to terms with different perspectives and with not having a fixed point of society, or omphalos [an object of world centrality].

Despite notable developments in countries around the world, the centrality of health to mainstream DRR policies and practices has often not been recognized.

But the confluence of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Sandy and the agreements at Cancun and Doha by richer nations to help pay for adaptation and mitigation as well as assist the victims of climate change has brought to the United States and the world the centrality of the question.

"The whole world knows of the centrality of New York to dance".

World War II's centrality deserves an eloquent memorial, but not one that diminishes two of the nation's most treasured icons.

Even toward the end of empire (and beyond it), mainstream opinion in Britain retained an unshakable confidence in the endurance of its values and centrality to world affairs.

That the initiative should have provoked such anger, but also interest, highlights a deeper problem in the Arab world: for all its centrality to the Arab experience during the past half-century, and for all the justifiable grievances it has aroused, the Palestinian fight for self-determination has, in many respects, rendered the Arab world impotent.

In the aftermath of World War II, the centrality of Kokugaku in intellectual discourse on Japanese national identity continued, but now it was widely associated with (indeed, blamed for) the rise of Japanese fascism in the 1930s.

No one thing in a world – object or person – has centrality.

Yet America's centrality in the world is taken for granted throughout the pieces that are collected here.

There are few things that today's Russia enjoys more than the sense, real or imagined, of its own centrality to all world events.