But such, even in our centres of population, cannot be got; the whole is let in large farms and turned into grazing.
On the contrary, we find the arts and sciences springing up in its wake, institutions started for alleviating the misery of all creatures, human and non-human, and great centres of education founded.
There was much talk of the centres of wealth, of territory, and of population then, and of where such centres might be in the future.
I observed the centres of distribution in the neighborhood of Belfast, in the County of Wicklow, and in Cavan.
As to the supposition that the motion proceeded from the sea towards the land, all the facts are against it, since the whole trend of these phenomena is from inland centres toward the shore, instead of being from the coast upward.
But the Scotch Highlands and the mountains of Wales and Ireland are but a few of the many centres of glacial distribution in Europe.
This arises from failure in the great nervecentres near the middle of the body.
We must think of not merely relieving, but of curing the patient, by attacking the poisonous substance where it has lodged in the nervecentres of the bowels.
In its essence the trouble is a failure of power in the nervous centresupon which health of the bowels depends.
Treatment, therefore, must be such as to restore to these centrestheir energy, and increase it.
The whole nerve system can be influenced by the rubbing of the head and spinal region, so as to wake up a strong increase of vital action in the nerve centres there.
They were the magic centres of every circle in which they moved together.
There are a multitude of homes which are centres of irritation and wretchedness, miniature hells to their occupants.
Light, porous scoriæ are abundant in the centres of some of these piles.
There are gateways, each sixty feet wide, at the centres of the northern and southern sides.
The centres of population are now, where they were at the period when the mysterious race of the mounds flourished.
The valley which it overlooks abounds in traces of the remote people, and seems to have been one of the centres of ancient population.
As we shall see in a future chapter, Eridu and Nippur were the centres from which the early culture and religion of the country were diffused.
Now let the attracting masses be put one at each end of the torsion rod with their centres in the line through the centres of the balls and d from them, and let T2 be the time of vibration.
On the western side the chief centres of trade during these centuries were the islands of Euboea and Aegina and the town of Corinth.
On the other hand, there is no habitually criminal class in Greece, such as exists in the large centres of civilization, and professional mendicancy is still rare.
Of the elaborate groups of combatants with which Lysippus enriched such centres as Olympia and Delphi, or of the huge bronze statues which he erected in temples and shrines, we can form no adequate notion.
He is said to have founded no less than seventy cities, destined to become centres of Greek influence; and the great majority of these were in lands in which city-life was almost unknown.
Let d be the distance between the centres of attracting mass and attracted ball, and [delta] the distance through which the ball is pulled.
Thus the chief centres of Minoan and Mycenaean culture have passed into Dorian hands, and the chief seats of Achaean power are included in Dorian states.
Then it was set with its length perpendicular to the line joining the centres and the time again taken.
The torsion rod was first set in the line joining the centresof the pillars and its time of vibration was taken.
Substitutions of this kind form the green "eyes" or centres of certain varieties of Ranunculus and Anemone.
In the performance of its functions, then, the National Society must ordinarily deal with the greater centres of organization; still when it is impracticable to form a branch, it may deal directly with the local centre.
Aside from the great centres of population, the common people are more trustworthy than the corporations, the colleges, or the newspapers.
At Cambridge, England, students from centres that are in affiliation with that institution can thus save one year's residence at the university.
It was a fresh, sweet odour, yet it somehow added to his alarm, and stirred in him new centresof uneasiness.
It rang in shrill syllables up the empty spaces, and it reached new centres of force within him that touched his last store of courage and strength.
The additional funds available made it possible for Mrs. Ward, in the last three years of her life, to add ten new Centres in London to the twenty-two that she was maintaining before the advent of the Grant.
Play Centres have been steadily increasing, and there were three Vacation Schools to organize.
What I wish is that you would join the Evening Play Centres Committee, and see for yourself what it means.
Your interest centres entirely on one character: your characters all move in the same region of ideas, and that a narrow one.
Thence-forward the Board of Education undertook to pay half the "approved expenditure" of the Evening Play Centres committee.
Value of the road to the new Dominion The class may be asked afterwards to draw a map showing the route and the chief commercial centres served by the railway.
The memory is aided and stimulated by the increase in the number of the centres of interest round which facts, both new and old, may be grouped.
The class must know where the Loyalist centres in the New England States were.
The coal-fields on or near the coast are centres of shipbuilding; and the interior coal-fields the centres of the great textile industries.
Carpenter; and the identification of the centres of conscious activity with separate departments of the cerebral organism, by Dr.
He was perhaps rather logically prior to the others than chronologically; being really connected with two bodies of men, which formed the centres of two infidel movements, the one in Paris, the other at the court of Frederick at Berlin.
The centres of intellectual activity in Germany now changed.
These regions were all more or less wild, and inhabited by nomadic Arabs, so that the adventures of the party were more numerous than when our work lay near the civilised centres and among the settled villagers.
The most interesting result of Herr Schumacher's journeys have been the discovery of the sites of Hippos and Kokaba east of the Sea of Galilee, and of dolmen centreslike those which I found in Moab.
And so, slowly, beginning at his hands and feet and creeping along his limbs to the vitalcentres of his body, that strange change continued.
But the essential phase was to place the transparent object whose refractive index was to be lowered between two radiating centres of a sort of ethereal vibration, of which I will tell you more fully later.
These towns he founded to be not only places of military strength, but also centres of industry and trade, which should increase the prosperity of his people.
They thus came again under the immediate control of the empire, and there were developed, two distinct centres of feudal life.
In a congested district where lodging accommodation is exhausted, the Billeting Board reports on the need for further houses, and at such centres as Barrow and Lincoln new houses are now being erected on their recommendation.
New Training Centres are constantly being opened in provincial areas, the instruction being adapted to the needs of local factories.
The assertion also is warranted that at certain centres of learning substantial legal instruction was given; one may even speak of schools of law.
Its seat was Bologna, one of the chief centres of the civic and commercial life of Lombardy.
In the great centres of executive toil the vital truths of religion seem to enter more insistently into the lives of men and women whose environment presents them with fewer distractions than elsewhere.
The building was constantly enlarged up to 1715, and became one of the most important centres of the Jesuit order.
The foundation of the University for a time made Prague one of the centres of European thought.
Tapestry, cloth of gold, and other woven fabrics of great beauty and fineness, besides embroidery, were produced in convents, which in the Middle Ages were the chief centres of culture for women.
In the eighteenth century, the palmy days of the domestic system, some women in the industrial centres were earning what were considered very good wages.
By the first week in November a couple of dozen centres of employment had been started, and perhaps 1 per cent of the unemployed women had been provided with work in the workrooms.
In 1906 the Unions endeavoured to improve conditions for the underpaid workers, and drew up a piece-work list of minimum rates applicable to all the centres of the trade.
Girls were formerly employed to some extent at piecing, but were prohibited by the Union twenty-six or twenty-seven years ago, so far as the important centres of cotton-spinning are concerned.
The following table is taken from the Labour Gazette, December 1914, and shows the state of employment in the principalcentres of the cotton trade.
In the largest centres of the industry things are moving more slowly.
As the home centres round the woman, the problem for the working woman has been, and is, one of enormous difficulty, involving considerable restatement of her traditional codes and customs.
By this process of investigation a series of centres for active stimulation have been discovered.
On the contrary, a conjoint action of several centres seems more commonly implied when the natural activity of the brain is contemplated in line of these results.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
