He was closely bound by instructions covering every detail that could be foreseen, and these instructions clearly show the centralising and jealous spirit of Portuguese institutions and ideas.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
I soon awoke to the fact that she was in the habit of centralising attention.
"A Fool and His Money"
George Barr McCutcheon
The inconstant soul of the Malay knows nothing of that rigid adherence to some centralising truth which often forms the heart of a living faith, and his religious history is an age-long record of failure, change, desertion, and oblivion, repeated in varying cadences, and inscribed in unmistakeable characters on the ruined sanctuaries of old Mataram.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings