Both of these characteristics account for their central importance in medicine.

The Group of 77 and China reaffirm today the centrality of that resolution.

The importance of designating a central authority, in accordance with the Organized Crime Convention, was also underscored.

Central to Asia s future is the strategic triangle made up of China, India, and Japan.

The US Japan alliance is central to America s position in Asia.

Manufacturing may ultimately be central to the vigor of a nation s democracy.

The issue of the Palestinian right of return has been of central importance to Palestinians and more broadly the Arab world since 1948.

These questions of identity are central to how they choose to act.

The private sector, while central in a modern economy, cannot ensure its success alone.

Yet Africa is central to the global environmental crisis in two important ways.

Thus it is vitally important that Germany has made this a central issue for its EU presidency, which is just beginning.

The Greek debt crisis underlined the important lesson that negotiation is central to the EU s existence.

For French elites since World War II, alignment with Germany has been central to projecting French power and influence.

As Rome grew in size and in power, following the Punic Wars, the importance of the family as the central unit within Roman society began to deteriorate.

Perhaps Obama s central error was that an important but minor matter stopping new settlements was given central significance.

Hong Kong is a special case, where the capitalist way of life is so central that it is enshrined in the constitution (the Basic Law).

Nothing in standard economic analysis can make sense of such a pay structure or of the rituals that are central to military tradition.

And a philosophy that asserts that financial innovation, market completion, and increased market liquidity are always and axiomatically beneficial provides a clear basis for regulatory decentralization.

Then again, the idea of Palestinian statehood is not central to Hamas s worldview, in which the strategic objective is the ultimate victory of Islam.

Centralized and disciplined decision making

The soundness and credibility of insolvency laws and director and officer practices are central to the efforts of governments and regulators to enhance the operation of the global financial system.

Unions have historically been especially important since they engage in decentralized wage bargaining that tie wages to firms productivity.

After all, Germany is central to Europe s well being, and Merkel s steady hand has allowed the continent to overcome a series of challenges over the last few years.

Because China must import vast quantities of oil through the Malacca Strait, that sea lane has become a central element in the country s security strategy.

As I illustrate and analyze at length in my new book, Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy Markets, Speculation and the State, the state has become central to the Innovation Economy s dynamics.

Using the energy weapon, however, is not just a tactic it is at the heart of the prevailing doctrine guiding Russian foreign policy.

Finance has long been central to thriving market democracies, which is why its current problems need to be addressed.

Other central banks are doing likewise.

There is no central power to prosecute him.

B. Foreign policy making is very centralized

Significantly, Obama restricted his tour to Asia s leading democracies India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea which surround China and are central to managing its rise.

Of the many factors that have decreased the share of consumption in China s economy, declining household disposable income has been central.

Antifragility is crucial in large economies like China, where administration is largely centralized, but activities are dispersed among families, civil society, markets, and the various levels of government.

The existence of multilateral instruments to promote disarmament and prevent proliferation among States has been central to the maintenance of international peace and security ever since those instruments were agreed.

From a centralized, hierarchical organization, it became a highly decentralized structure, with regional branches as the dominant actors.

This implies the creation of a central, common system wide database or the use of decentralized but interconnected standard databases.

They have central effects on pain modulation.

It is a central result in analytic number theory.

This commitment includes financing and decentralization of the system.

I mean, the power of the city we talked about cities as being centralized in space, but what makes them so strong most of the time is they're decentralized in function.

Moreover, because of the Fund s broad and deeply embedded multinational expertise, its activities are central to achieving globally cooperative solutions to economic and financial problems.

They also tended to do disproportionately well in the learned professions such as medicine, law, and accounting that are so central to modern capitalist society.

Other central banks are expected to follow.

It is a fresh crater with a distinctive central peak.

(d) Decentralization and devolution of authority to local levels