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The black hole at the centre of the Milky Way is a behemoth with a mass four million times that of the Sun.

Though China is at the centre of plenty of other disputes, its membership of the WTO has at least helped to moderate and regulate those.

If all goes well for her, "Mac" , as he likes to be called, could be at the centre of American politics for another decade.

The age of believing that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe, and that you were the only evolved Beings in it are well over.

But "Fredo" , as the president liked to call him, was at the centre of two of Mr Bush's most controversial policies.

It's been a difficult week for Google, which has been at the centre of antitrust investigations and a controversial Italian court case.

The drama in the stocks of banks at the centre of the rumours, with Royal Bank of Scotland the latest hapless victim, did not permit that.

The findings are likely to shed new light on the state of marriage in Britain, which is at the centre of a growing political argument .

When we finally stop at the centre of an aisle, we pause and take stock, casting our eyes along the length of it.

Yet this mountain of fading literary oddments is now at the centre of a fierce debate in the book world that is about to come to a head.

He plays in any position in midfield, he is finally living up to expectations and he is at the centre of Lazio's game.

The sun's rays, concentrated at the centre of the recipient, cause an intense heat which allows a flame to be obtained.

Three Pakistani cricketers at the centre of a corruption scandal have been banned from playing by the International Cricket Council.

"There is going to be a very broad content economy in the future and we'd like AOL to be at the centre of it, " Mr Armstrong says.

This tension, between the force of the material world and the will of the imagination, lies at the centre of this book.

But an undervalued exchange rate is at the centre of a development model built around exports and capital investment.

If you happen to be at the centre of some of the action, know that you were aware beforehand that you would be there.

Many of these consequences will be forestalled by the fact that no other country can yet replace the US at the centre of the global system.

He said pro-poor policies, under the government's mantra of "inclusive growth" , were at the centre of his economic programme.

Crucially, Bartenev says he had no idea that the ship was, by now, at the centre of an international search.

This places them at the centre of one of the hardest- hit segments of the global IT industry as a result of the economic downturn.

At the centre of the alleged conspiracy were a couple thought to have made millions by managing a network of brothels.

The surface pressure at the centre of the tornado is shown in Figure 7. 26.

Now fate has put the Europeans at the centre of the showdown over the Palestinian demand for full membership of the United Nations.

Note: The wind measurements were taken at the centre of the North Runway.

FOR a man who has placed "hope" at the centre of his campaign, Barack Obama can sound pretty darned depressing.

A circle of light appeared suddenly at the centre of the scene. It lit a feminine silhouette, sitting sidelong on a chair.

The star at the centre of the system in question is 55 Cancri A, a yellow dwarf similar to the sun that lies 40 light years away.

The gas must be far hotter than the dense matter at the centre of the sun for fusion to happen.

In many countries, particularly in Africa, lack of staff is at the centre of the health systems challenge.

The featured Chinese trawler is at the centre of a September incident that brought Sino-Japanese relations to their lowest point since 2005.

John Maynard Keynes once proposed a global currency, the Bancor, to be placed at the centre of the international monetary system.

LADY GAGA is at the centre of a bidding war - to save tea from hot water.

The Prime Minister is at the centre of a political row over leaked Cabinet documents.

Asia is at the centre of an inevitable development of our digital world: the coming mineral wars.

TGC's twice-a-year show has solidified its place at the centre of gyaru culture.

Kenneth Huang, reportedly at the centre of a proposed takeover of Liverpool, has played down links with the Premier League club.

But Mr Chen pledged to put constitutional change at the centre of the agenda for his remaining time in office.

It's a spider's web of rehab services, with one determined woman, Noreen Oliver, at the centre of it.

Something protruded at the centre of the field, some stumpy antenna of his present or previous self.

One is at the centre of government, where power has been parcelled out between four members of a single family.

Now the messenger itself is at the centre of a raging political debate.

The clinic at the centre of the scare had a similar incident six years ago when 14 actors were found to be carrying the Aids virus.

The ground- breaking deal is at the centre of an effort to transform relations with India.

Dallas-Fort Worth's enormous airport lies at the centre of a large number of logistics and distribution centres.

A small, massive, positively charged structure at the centre of an atom composed of subatomic particles, namely the protons and neutrons.

This pronoun is at the centre of Then We Came to the End, a novel about cubicle dwellers in an advertising agency.

The tycoon and former cricket impresario has a passport issued by Antigua, where the banking operations at the centre of the case are based.

Chiellini has become a rock at the centre of the Old Lady defence and one of the first names on Claudio Ranieri's team sheet.

He abandoned the noiseless transparencies and pointed at the centre of the spreading rings like a setter.

Pansy is also an STDM director and managing director of Shun Tak, putting her at the centre of her father's corporate web of companies.

But one of its main advantages is that you are at the centre of things, and that life doesn't come to an end at half-past nine at night.

The prime minister will put climate change at the centre of that relationship.

Sian Massey, the assistant referee at the centre of the Sky sexism row last season, has been promoted.

Mr Rajaratnam is at the centre of one of the largest insider-trading cases in history.

This is possible because local communities themselves are at the centre of implementation.

Thanks to German astronomers, we now have the most accurate measurements yet of the giant black hole that sits at the centre of our galaxy.

One of the highest quality office building in Qingdao, located at the centre of Qingdao CBD, very close to City Hall and Shangri-La Hotel.

but because it stands at the centre of a two-decade-long transformation of the financial markets and a new approach to risk.

Realizing the above vision in a successful way requires the Government to put customers at the centre of public service delivery.

Trade and currencies are the now familiar issues at the centre of the economic tensions in the bilateral relationship.

A teenage Chinese swimmer was on Monday at the centre of the Olympic Games' first controversy over allegations of doping.

He is unapproachable at the centre of a web of protective corporate layering, and he gives no interviews.

The US is at the centre of the crisis but Europe and Japan may suffer even larger aftershocks.

But it is puzzling why market measures of a bank's risk should be at the centre of financial regulation.

At the centre of SHENZHEN, strong and high effeciencylogistics network distributing all over the world.

A leftist group, the Revolutionary People's Struggle, is at the centre of the trial.

The state in its many forms still plays an enormous role in the Chinese economy which puts Beijing is at the centre of business affairs.

An oil well at the centre of a massive spill in the Timor Sea off the north-west coast of Australia is on fire.

The feature spans 50, 000 light-years and may be the remnant of an eruption from a supersized black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

The company at the centre of arranging those payments was Hyundai.

The Sahara is also at the centre of an American initiative to stop terrorism getting a foothold in Africa.

The woman at the centre of the John Terry affair today furiously denied allegations of relationships with three more Chelsea players.

If you stretch your arm, it is about two thumbs' width at the centre of your vision----everything else is pretty much blurred.

I suddenly thought of a good way: with an iron tablets withstood so you can make candles at the centre of the more stable.

Banks are at the centre of everything that has gone wrong over the past 18 months, and that needs to be fixed.

Ronnie Biggs, the man at the centre of Britain's great train robbery, is expected to be freed within days, in time for his 80th birthday.

Lucrative land deals are thought to be at the centre of this wealth.

Military parades are symbolic and the Kremlin has long put Russia's wartime victory at the centre of its post-Soviet identity.

The Spitzer observations also helped confirm a massive galaxy at the centre of the cluster was forming stars at an impressive rate.

Nor, thankfully, is the sun at the centre of the galaxy.

And health must be at the centre of these efforts.

The university was at the centre of allegations last year that it had manipulated climate change data to magnify the problem.

Business schools should be at the centre of this merging of the sectors.

moreover , heat energy generated during decay of heavy elements like uranium at the centre of the earth triggers tectonic movement.

Over the coming weeks, The Economist will profile several economies at the centre of wider global trends.

Sergio Marchionne likes to be at the centre of attention and he got his wish in Detroit this week.

FOR much of the past two years, the judiciary has been at the centre of political turmoil in Pakistan.

The government's solution is to promise them that China will be restored to its rightful place at the centre of world affairs.

The images at the centre of the protest appear on most of the European versions of the web encyclopaedia, though not on Arabic sites.

which is at the centre of a violent battle between rival drug gangs.

If you look at the centre of this logo, you can see two people enjoying a Tostito chip with a bowl of salsa.

Property rights are supposed to be at the centre of capitalist economies.

A bathing pool at the centre of the pavilion will be filled with sea water from Copenhagen harbour, shipped to Shanghai.

Jerusalem, Temple of (957B. C. ) : Either of two temples that were at the Centre of worship and national identity in anCient Israel.

Its outlook is important because it is at the centre of global flows, and its wide business relationships help it anticipate price cycles.

Back Wordings : Silver reflective silkscreen printing wordings at the centre of the back.

They stand at the centre of America's intellectual and technological global leadership, but are now under threat as never before.

Hedge funds were not at the centre of the crisis, but they are a politically expedient target.

He remains a man at the centre of things, a dedicated historian unwilling to tailor his views to prevailing opinion.

At the centre of this wing is the famous balcony, with the Centre Room behind its glass doors.

And, at the centre of the city, is the mysterious Imperial Palace -- home to the emperor and a tangible link to the past.

Green, being in the centre of a rainbow, is also at the centre of the colour spectrum.

The 28-year-old journalist at the centre of the storm appears to have made his name.

Bin Laden's death means the removal of the figure at the centre of this construct.

Then, accounting was at the centre of financial scandals at Enron and WorldCom.

At the centre of the onion is nothing.

An image released by NASA shows Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy.

The giant was identified at the centre of a star cluster in the Tarantula Nebula.

If this kind of thinking is correct, the rumblings at the centre of our galaxy will give astronomers a new way to examine conditions there.

Singapore, sitting near the equator at the centre of Asia's trade lanes, suddenly looks both more central and more cosmopolitan.

At present, Tanzania is at the centre of the world's ivory slaughter.

At the centre of this philosophy is "providing work for those who can work and security for those who cannot" .

They have been at war ever since he put them at the centre of the production system he built at the studio.

Roads were cleared yesterday to two of the towns at the centre of the earthquake, Beichuan and Wenchuan.

Saudi Arabia, which remains at the centre of American security and energy policy in the Middle East, is also a growing concern.

Her boys, though, were at the centre of her world.

But much of what a foreigner sees, inevitably, is that the old wooden buildings at the centre of town have been torn down.

Serious though the conflict between corporate advice and retail financial services is, it was not at the centre of the credit crunch.

You have access to a worldwide service network, with staff who place your wishes and requirements at the centre of their daily activities.

The UN has long stood at the centre of international efforts to combat terrorism and to create a legal framework covering all its aspects.

At the centre of the book is a former beauty queen named Vida whom Sabina meets in Miami.

In America, Republican opposition to the very notion of tax increases is at the centre of the political argument.

AMERICA'S mortgage lenders are again at the centre of a scandal.

Fiery words, frayed tempers, and talk of currency wars, with China at the centre of the debate.

Mr Novak's brand of insider journalism frequently put him at the centre of the political storm.

It even has a medial, chance status, in the gap opened up at the centre of the dialectic of the subject and the Other.

As usual, it is sensitivity, specificity and negative predictive value that are at the centre of attention.

It has real astrophysical importance because it decreases the need for dark matter at the centre of our galaxy.

Mr. Berlusconi has been at the centre of a number of alleged scandals in the past few months.

They place health at the centre of the development agenda and champion its role as a key driver of socioeconomic progress.

It is an active galaxy lying at the centre of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies.

In spite of having a gay stepsister, she has long put opposition to same-sex marriage at the centre of her politics.

Nor did he position his experience as outsider or tourist at the centre of the work.

Recent missions, such as UNMIS in South Sudan show that protection of civilians needs to be at the centre of the UN's focus.

She shows little interest in causes that have been at the centre of Lithuanian concerns in previous years, such as promoting Georgia.

The reception building emerges from pine trees at the centre of the campsite.

There won't be much tightening in countries at the centre of the financial storm.

I will keep the people affected by TB and their organizations at the centre of my work and close to my heart!

His view directly challenged the church's view at the time - that the Earth was static and at the centre of the universe.

He was thrilled to be at the centre of attention.

"Now business schools are at the centre of the university, " he says.

At the centre of the archipelago, perhaps in the most favoured spot of all, lies an island that has been deserted for many generations.

It keeps classic human-rights questions at the centre of its activities and gives only modest attention to other concerns.

At the centre of the temple stands a quincunx (five coplanar) of towers.

These are formed when the nuclear fusion reactions at the centre of a star can no longer support its structure.

They lay at the centre of tiny, low-mass galaxies, which then collided with each other over time to create full-sized galaxies like our own.

Peking University was at the centre of the May 4th Movement.

The US is at the centre of the storm.

What is required is the political will to keep this understanding at the centre of the relationship.

The wooden stage at the centre of the photo actually is a 'hotel room'.

In the film The Core they don't disembark at the centre of the Earth, that's just ridiculous.

The housing crisis remains at the centre of the economic slump.

This spirit of solidarity and commitment to fairness has placed the health needs of Africa at the centre of the development agenda.

Asian equities were at the centre of a global financial storm 10 years ago.

Mr McCain has thus placed abortion, the most divisive cultural issue in America, at the centre of his campaign.

In Sweden people take most of their holiday in July at the centre of the period stipulated by law (from 1 June to 31 August).

The puzzle at the centre of our knowledge of the universe is time.

Despite his impeccable record, this is not the first time that Merk has found himself at the centre of controversy.

For the first time the FW27 sported a series of three mid wings to create additional down force right at the centre of the car.

There is a contradiction at the centre of the efficient market hypothesis.

The magician at the centre of the controversy, Fu Yandong, denies he harms the fish.

The resin injection hole is set at the centre of the mold and overflow hole on the conners.

Securitisation, which has been at the centre of the current crisis, is another child of the 1970s.

The current issue of the Government Gazette is loaded by clicking the title at the centre of the homepage.

Being at the centre of deals gave an investment bank great power.

Not only are we not at the centre of the universe, we are not even of the right stuff.

The marksman aimed at the centre of the target.

For 30 years, whenever economic crises hit the world, Jean-Claude Trichet has been at the centre of the action.

September 11th, 2001, put questions of global strategy at the centre of the national debate.

Banks are at the centre of the payment system.

Housing has been at the centre of the recession and it continues to blight the recovery.

In the world of sport, China truly is the Middle Kingdom, the beating heart at the centre of things.

The 62-year-old boss also sits, literally, at the centre of Honda's Tokyo headquarters.

The details lie at the centre of the work.

First, the goals place health firmly at the centre of the development agenda.

At the centre of everything you have national malaria control programmes, which are much more sophisticated than 20 years ago.

And there is a large circular gap at the centre of the blades, which is safer for marine life.

UMNO, which has been at the centre of power since independence from Britain in 1957, has 79 of the coalition's 140 seats.

There is a fountain at the centre of the square.

Tarak Barkawi is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge.

We can overcome them by putting people at the centre of our work.

Astronomers now know the source is a neutron star 11, 000 light years from Earth at the centre of the supernova Cassiopeia A.

China is at the centre of powerful economic new links between developing countries.

At the centre of the park there is a monument in memory of the hero.

It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the centre of the bridge;

Chinese officials say the dumplings at the centre of a food poisoning in Japan were unlikely to have been contaminated in China.

The six-year-old boy has been at the centre of an international custody battle since late last year.

It is for Lot No. 159 in DD 384, which is situated at the centre of Palatial Coast.

At the centre of the park there is a fountain.

At the centre of the park there is a big tree.

I am pleased that Hong Kong, China is today at the centre of this admirable enterprise.

And Adbusters itself is at the centre of the narrative, generating headlines on its blog like

Child development is at the centre of the Foundation stage

Ah, the light dances, my darling, at the centre of my life;

walked across the ice sheet at the centre of the island,

Israel at the Centre of it all

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Fewer people will put the PC at the centre of their computing universe;

In the US it was homeowners who were at the centre of the crisis;

hope you keep me at the centre of your bullseye

Vignetting at the centre of the field

And now we're singing at the centre of the stage

At the centre of a circle