But the centerpiece species of Zakouma are the elephants.

GAP is the centerpiece of Government's approach to gender mainstreaming.

President Joko Widodo made improving Indonesia's tattered infrastructure a centerpiece of his election campaign, and he has lavished money on roads and railways.

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

Second, what will America s relationship with its traditional allies be? Will formal alliances such as NATO remain the centerpiece of American strategy, or will they be superseded by mission specific coalitions?

The green and white Sikorsky VH 3D, known as Marine One when the President is aboard, was the centerpiece of the July 17 event at the White House showcasing American construction programs.

Ukraine should be the centerpiece of any effort to revive the Eastern Partnership as a way to attract the support of Europeans who remain outside the EU. Yes, the news from my country remains bad.

CAMBRIDGE In a time of tight budgets and financial crisis, politicians nowadays look to economic growth as the centerpiece of their domestic policy programs. Gross domestic product is taken to be the leading indicator of national well being.

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.

That is why a knee jerk, simplistic Washington Consensus prescription of more liberalization and privatization is inappropriate for the Arab world in 2012. There is a clear political need for a growth strategy in which inclusion is the centerpiece, not an afterthought.

As France shuns NATO as the centerpiece of an international response to the Islamic State, Turkey s zero tolerance approach to encroachments on its airspace has put NATO Russian relations under dangerous strain. It is in easing those tensions that the EU has an important role to play.

Its one positive effect was to launch an effort to reform the international monetary system. 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.

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. French President Jacques Chirac has joined Blair and Brown in a bold call for rich countries to honor their promises to the poor.

Moreover, Hamas is well aware that their attacks cause Israel to insist even more strongly on security as the centerpiece of any agreement. This, in turn, puts the spotlight on ongoing security cooperation between Israel, the PA, and the United States, again undermining the PA s claims to represent the Palestinian people.

Much has been said of President George W. Bush s American led crusade to bring democracy to the Muslim world. Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were predicated, at least in part, on spreading freedom similarly, the Middle East Partnership Initiative is supposed to make democracy the centerpiece of American assistance in the region.

Alexander's formula is also popular today with Putin s nationalists in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In his pro imperial Russia film The Barber of Siberia, the Oscar winning director Nikita Mikhalkov whose father composed the Stalin era national anthem that Putin recently revived used the coronation of Alexander III as the symbolic centerpiece of Russia s greatness, inviting Russian leaders to walk in his footsteps.

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. And yet, while the speech was widely considered a successful exercise in public diplomacy, it did not herald renewed US involvement in peace negotiations.

The European Investment Bank, which received a significant capital increase in 2012, should add a large investment support program for medium size enterprises to its current operations, with a subsidy financed from the European budget to encourage first time job takers for a limited period. 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.