What is "centered"

Usage examples of "centered".

American life, crowding out a more meaningful set of values centered on family, responsibility, and community.

Second, priorities were driven at the local level by the field offices, whose concerns centered on traditional crimes such as white-collar offenses and those pertaining to drugs and gangs.

Saudi government centered on improving intelligence sharing and permitting U.

Atta voiced virulently anti-Semitic and anti-American opinions, ranging from condemnations of what he described as a global Jewish movement centered in New York City that supposedly controlled the financial world and the media, to polemics against governments of the Arab world.

After a lot of jiggling, a fuzzy dot centered itself, grew in size, and sharpened into the image of a feathery coil of light with a golden yolk at the center.

Maxian centered himself and extended his sight, seeking the source of the unfelt wind that now accelerated the rings of the plate into an irregular sphere.

Then he centered again and reached out to draw power from the crusty loam of the floor and the tree roots high above.

Brownpony took the zucchetto from his hand and centered it carefully upon his stubbly tonsure, then patted it down.

When the rocket was centered directly above the concrete pad and about at eye level with Gray and Lauraits flat sides now lit by large spotlights from the groundit began to sink in a straight line toward the earth.

The fifth system, Asmodeus, centered by a pleasant little K-type orange dwarf not unlike Epsilon Eridani, sent waves of in-system torchships to the defense of its populated asteroid belt.

I visualized that cat now, but within minutes I could visualize nothing but the immediate and overpowering sense of my dear friend opening to me, of the subtle taste of the sea, of our movements like the tide rising, of all of my senses being centered in the slow but growing sensation at the core of me.

In a large square block over the mantel in the living room were a number of credit card signs, all of them centered and carefully mounted.

Izable, Eliey, and Kaudine had fallen, and the forward artillery had been withdrawn, along with the survivors of the overrun outposts, to a line centered on Judlie, behind the main command post.