1.   Ideas as such are not central in electoral politics.

2.   The accumulation of capital, and hence the ownership of capital, was central in harnessing the productive power of mechanical energy.

3.   These features make elite theory central in arguments about the liberal democratic state.

4.   After all, the vocabulary of religion has been central in the fighting.

5.   Enosh said he feels he has tapped into something central in the Israeli psyche.

6.   He was also central in congressional approval last year of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a trade accord linking the United States, Canada and Mexico.

7.   Images of Buddha are central in worship.

8.   Kazan never wrote back, but the impact that the film had on the young man was absolutely central in shaping the screenwriter and director he was to become.

9.   No issue is more central in Iran these days than the officially nonexistent relations with the United States.

10.   Peace through strength continues to be central in the Middle East.