central thread

Despite such a mixed bag of occupations, the Giants remain a central thread in the family.

The central thread of the corruption was law enforcement officers providing protection and other services to drug traffickers.

But this has become the central thread of the Graun's environmental reporting.

The central thread concerns a kidnapping and the negotiator's attempts to solve the crime.

This central thread of "Arcadia" is deeply felt but too often lost in the work's vast tapestry.

Gerard Coppola's love of broadcasting and music was the central thread of his life.

The illuminati plot to bring revolution to England is a central thread.

Though this handsome film was made on a small budget and a streamlined scale, it's big enough to wander from the central thread of its story.

"I think the central thread of my work has dealt with political concerns," Mr. West said in a recent telephone interview from Washington.

His struggle to win acceptance for this system forms the central thread of "Between Silk and Cyanide."

With so much going on in so many different venues, there is no single central thread (apart, perhaps, from the heroic consumption of music and alcohol).

Popular imperial unity was the central thread of the Scottish Unionist Party's belief system.

Mendelssohn in a sense paved the way for many others who illustrate the central thread of Mr. Elon's book.

A binding post contains a central threaded metal rod and a cap that screws down on that rod.

That alienation, however, has often played to his benefit with voters and is a central thread in his challenge of Ms. Molinari.

The present-day scenes also serve as a vital coda to one of The Iron Lady's central threads: the personal cost of power.

Hydraulic technology has been a central thread of his scholarly career, with many of his articles and studies collected in a Variorum volume.

The exhibit includes Blanket Stories, a sculpture made of two towers of wool blankets, with each stack sewn together with a central thread.

Now the biscuits are facing each other, a yard apart, pulled toward each other by the central thread and held apart by the straw columns.

Unfortunately, the central thread in the play is an implausibly drawn relationship between the widow and a glib reporter from Los Angeles with possibly nefarious motives.

The important central thread, common to every country in which the competition is held, is the emphasis on quality, whether it be in terms of talent, professionalism or creativity.

A central thread of our entertainment lives ... Alan Plater at Scapa Flow in Scotland.

The central thread of the play is an appearance by the head of the Federal theater, Hallie Flanagan, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

In most of these fraud cases, a central thread is a trip abroad, preferably to some place trying to cope with an upheaval like an earthquake, a flood, or, perhaps, a civil war.

Among the prisoners of war who crawl outside onto the courtyard are also the Russian officers Michail and Nikolai, whose destiny serves as the central thread in the movie.