The mother country, its agents, its superior legal culture—these acted centripetally, before Independence. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
All I ask of you is to act centripetally in entering the debate which is of vital concern to South Africa and all its people. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
If the reefrat can accelerate its own body without reaction, perhaps it can also accelerate gas molecules centripetally, also without reaction. From Wordnik.com. [Starchild Omnibus]
Attractive women of nineteen and of twenty-nine are alike in their breezy confidence; on the contrary, the exigent womb of the twenties does not pull the outside world centripetally around itself. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
He came to the conclusion that the hypoplasia of motor nerve cells of the ventral horn and of other nerve cells of the same hemisection of the spinal cord resulted from lack of stimuli centripetally transmitted by nerve fibers of the first differentiated neurons. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later] Reference
Therefore, this vibratory action is neutralized by attaching two additional like wheels to the common plane, with their rotation advanced 90 degrees, so that the second pair are imposing their equal arc centripetal force at the same time the first set of wheels are describing the two major and two minor arc centripetally imposed forces. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
It appears to lie within my mental eyeball, and to be viewed centripetally. From Wordnik.com. [Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development] Reference
At the clanking sound our little circle centripetally disintegrated, as if by sheer magic; and I was left somewhat dizzily to face a renewal of reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Enormous Room] Reference
It has been noted that unlike some cities that draw you, centripetally, towards a center, say New York or Chicago, the setting and its natural force here is more centrifugal. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
It is maintained by peripherally located limbal stem cells (LSCs) that produce transient amplifying cells (TACs) which proliferate, migrate centripetally, differentiate and are eventually shed from the epithelial surface. From Wordnik.com. [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference
The leaders of Canadian life who followed Confederation have worked centrifugally rather than centripetally, with the result that we are farther away than ever from having national schools in Canada, and the gulf between our two leading nationalities has been widened instead of narrowed. From Wordnik.com. [Can We Achieve Canadian Unity?] Reference
But there is one important difference: when the central glands are irritated, they transmit centrifugally an influence up the pedicels of the exterior tentacles to their glands; but the actual process of aggregation travels centripetally, from the glands of the exterior tentacles down their pedicels. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
Yachtsmen, visitors, farmers and country wives, sober citizens and mothers of families, all meet centripetally and mount and are whirled to the mad strains of the barrel-organ under the flaming naphtha, around the revolving pillar where the mirrored images chase one another too quickly for thought to answer their reflections. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Troy] Reference
Caesars and Augusti of the West left her for Milan and Ravenna, it was because the Crest-Wave was departing, the forces turning centrifugal, and Italy breaking to pieces; long afterwards again, in the eighteen-seventies, when the Crest-Wave was returning, Italy must flow in centripetally to Rome; no Turin, no Florence would do. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
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