Despite the warm feelings it now evokes in north European hearts, as a locus of healthy food and blissful ecology, the Mediterranean is a perilous place for sailors.
We may have lost some innocence, moreover, but America still remains a bastion of civil and political freedom and a locus of economic opportunity in a world not precisely overflowing with either of these things.
But with terrible irony, the replacement housing itself gradually became a blighted locus of social problems.
The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, the Mother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.
Formerly bastions of intellectual freedom in a world of Babbitry, formerly the locus of sexual freedom and experimentation, they now became the most restrictive environments in modern society.
According to trusty old Wikipedia, the term scuttlebutt corresponds to the iconic colloquial concept of a water cooler, which becomes the locus of congregation and casual discussion.
In several works, too, the humble Old City alleyway or hara, the turf of Cairo street gangs and the locus of urban loyalties, became a metaphor for Egypt or for the world itself.
Each one attaches itself to only one predetermined mini-satellite region, or locus, and produces a much simpler pattern of just two bands, corresponding to one gene inherited from the subject's mother, and one from the father.
His General Re- insurance acquisition closes by year-end, and it moves the locus of BRK from an investment house to a worldwide insurance empire.
To the eyes of the Christian east, the western Madonna often seems to be rather a shallow and sentimental figure because her theological role as agent and locus of the Incarnation has been forgotten or blurred.
"We have so many more worlds that could be a locus for life, but so much less information upon which to understand the habitability of that world, " said astrobiologist Tori Hoehler at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif.
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