But the centerpiece species of Zakouma are the elephants.

Chess has long been the centerpiece of research in artificial intelligence.

The Fund was the centerpiece of the post 1945 global economic system.

The centerpiece of this culture is the Varna Necropolis, discovered in the early 1970s.

I think it would be a centerpiece of whatever it is that you're doing.

The bust returned to the Neues Museum as its centerpiece when the museum reopened in October 2009.

The Doha Round was supposed to make agriculture the centerpiece of negotiations to assuage the deep frustrations of developing countries.

It is and would be wrong to make opposition to terrorism the centerpiece of what responsible governments do in the world.

Moreover, Hamas is well aware that their attacks cause Israel to insist even more strongly on security as the centerpiece of any agreement.

I love the way that they'll spend hours picking dandelions in the backyard and putting them into a nice centerpiece for Thanksgiving dinner.

If successful, the centerpiece of their efforts would be a global deal on how to reduce harmful greenhouse gases, by how much, and when.

CAMBRIDGE In a time of tight budgets and financial crisis, politicians nowadays look to economic growth as the centerpiece of their domestic policy programs.

The centerpiece of Nowruz observances is the Haft Sīn table setting of seven symbolic foods all starting with the letter 'S' (سین in Persian).

This includes restoring ties with Europe, tightening the nuclear nonproliferation regime and possibly a restoration of China as the centerpiece of US policy in Asia.

The Italian government decided to bring back the history and culture of Venice, and sought to use the traditional Carnival as the centerpiece of its efforts.

Great Britain has made the Millennium Development Goals, and hence the IFF, the centerpiece of the G 8 Summit, which will be held in Scotland next July.

The Obama administration then assumed responsibility for organizing the government s efforts to boost recovery, the centerpiece being a large stimulus package to shore up the real economy.

Therefore, the US should make collaboration with other key stakeholders, particularly ASEAN, the United Nations, and Burma s neighbors including China, India and Japan the centerpiece of its policy.

At the beginning of the 1990 s, with inflation rampant, the three largest Latin American countries decided to use the exchange rate as the centerpiece of their stabilization strategies.

Jobs and training for young people must be the centerpiece for the new growth pact, and projects must move ahead in crisis mode, rather than according to business as usual.

George W. Bush s administration took matters much further, with a defense agreement in 2005 and a landmark accord on civil nuclear cooperation in 2008 (which remains the centerpiece of the transformed relationship).

We hope that the United Nations will become the centerpiece of a more just and equitable world order and will speak for the whole of humanity rather than just for a privileged few.

So now that the French government not them again! has committed to making international monetary reform the centerpiece of its G 20 presidency in 2011, it is worth recalling the cautionary tale of the 1960 s.

The reform s centerpiece is a requirement imposed by the government that people choose responsibly and provide themselves with insurance albeit with the government willing to subsidize the poor and strengthen the bargaining power of the weak.

During the 1920s, a commitment to refurbish the battlecruiser (which remained in active service until 1950) as the centerpiece of the republic's fleet was the only constant element of the various naval policies which were put forward.

The centerpiece of Obama s visit was his address in Jerusalem, in which employing his characteristically compelling rhetoric he won over the skeptical Israeli public by appealing to their sense of morality, asking them to imagine the conflict from a Palestinian perspective.

Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off the grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create . The centerpiece of campus is the spiraling Heart of School, perhaps the world's largest freestanding bamboo building.

At the beginning of the 1990 s, with inflation rampant, the three largest Latin American countries decided to use the exchange rate as the centerpiece of their stabilization strategies. Given that international capital flows had restarted, they did not fear immediate external constraints.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail, winding through Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, started as a simple network of dirt roads and blossomed into the centerpiece of the winning North Vietnamese strategy during the Vietnam War, supplying weapons, troops, and psychological support to the South.

The centerpiece of his domestic agenda is a health care plan that will cost more than a trillion dollars over the next decade, and that he proposes to finance by reducing waste in the existing government health programs (Medicare and Medicaid) without reducing the quantity and quality of services.

As long as the marginal piece of German debt is used as collateral for a short term loan or as the centerpiece of a repurchase agreement to gain liquidity, its value is much more likely to be determined by the terms on which the ECB accepts it as collateral than by its fundamentals.