1.  A central reason cited for the cutback was the abject failure of highly touted sports movies.

2.  For them a central reason for concentrating on civil society lies in the social and emotional significance of the home.

3.  A central reason for his appeal as an international mediator is his Baptist-missionary sensibility and honest-broker integrity.

4.  Consumer pessimism is one central reason the Japanese economy seems impervious to more than a decade of failed government remedies.

5.  Could this unwillingness to reshape his musical vision be the central reason Ellington failed as a Broadway composer?

6.  Emotion and history are the central reasons why it has become so difficult to assess the views of the Russian voter.

7.  In that disconnection lies a central reason why this conflict appears to be growing even more resistant to resolution.

8.  Probably the central reason Clancy succeeds so well with so many readers is that he offers resolutions to problems apparently intractable outside the pages of his books.

9.  So far, though, this group appeared unwilling to address the central reasons for the oil price decline.