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The enormous depth of alluvial soil found in the _bolsones_ or depressions of the Mexican plateau, formed from rock-decay, or of volcanic material accumulated by the great lakes of recent times which covered them in the central part of the great _mesa central_, bear striking evidence to the filling-up process of the past. ❋ Martin [Editor] Hume (1919)

Too, which criteria matches the term central England? ❋ Unknown (2007)

The moves by Mr. Maliki come after Mr. Allawi's Iraqiya bloc announced over the weekend that it was indefinitely suspending its participation in parliament to protest what it called the "central government's iron fist" in dealing with a bid by Sunni Arab leaders in several provinces to become regions with more powers independent of Baghdad. ❋ Sam Dagher (2011)

The few times the yuan has significantly weakened against the dollar during the trading day, rather than being guided down by Beijing through the daily setting of what it calls the central parity rate, have been due to the PBOC engineering a dollar shortage in China's interbank market, prompting banks to buy dollars on the foreign-exchange market to meet their own funding needs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1958, Francis Crick used and characterized the concept of information in the context of stating what he called the central dogma of molecular biology. ❋ Darden, Lindley (2009)

COLLINS: Obama also talked about Afghanistan, which he calls the central front in the war on terror. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Our National Executive Committee said this in the context of addressing what it identified as the central task of the NDR - the intensification of the struggle for the eradication of poverty. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He said he had gals come over to the condo to give him massages, that he had found the number in the "Washingtonian" magazine and recently he been using some what he called central American gals to give him massages. ❋ Unknown (2007)

WARNER: I had the opportunity to question him, because I was concerned about this recent military action and whether that sort of sidetracked the -- what I called the central focus now on electing a unified -- not electing, but forming a unified government. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But the bottom line is that the president does also have to concede in his speeches that he thinks this is what he calls the central front in the war on terrorism. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This is what we call the central silk road civilizations and during the Buddhist period and particularly from the second to the sixth century after Christ, there was a series of monasteries installed in this province where we have now the two gigantic Buddhas who are called Bamiyan Buddhas. ❋ Unknown (2001)

But, says Sidiropoulos, "To some extent the (Pretoria) Declaration undermines South Africa's position on certain things which it identified as central to the African renaissance, like human rights, rule of law and good governance." ❋ Unknown (2000)

In the shadow of Jesus 'tomb, or what is said to be Jesus' tomb, the pontiff said that tomb now stands as silent witness to what he called the central event of human history, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. ❋ Unknown (2000)

Bronkhorstspruit mayor Hosea Ntshabaleng is furious that the project, which promised to bring money and jobs to the impoverished local community, has been virtually halted by what he terms central government intransigence. ❋ Unknown (1997)

When we go to the range three of these wagons go along part way and carry the food, establishing what we call central camps. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)

Boulogne (which I call the central point of the Western attack) must be attended to. ❋ Mahan, A. T. (1897)

Every tribe has a fixed place for the chiefs of the towns to meet and consult on the business of the tribe; and in every nation there is what they call the central council house, or central. council fire, where the chiefs of the several tribes, with the principal warriors, convene to consult and determine on their national affairs. ❋ Unknown (1853)

James Taylor, a senior fellow for environment policy at conservative think-tank The Heartland Institute, wrote at Forbes that the meaning of the new research is clear -- and it compromises what he called a "central premise of alarmist global warming theory." ❋ Unknown (2011)