revolve around someone/something

Examples of revolved

revolved

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Their discussion revolved from the start around the causes of and the responsibilities for delinquency and the way it is dealt with.
The debate revolved around the party's programme for the upcoming general elections.
Compared to preschool conversations, family mealtime conversations less frequently revolved around turn negotiations, maybe due to the much lower number of participants in family interaction.
Such a concord revolved around the extent of a landlord's legitimate political influence, depending on the tenants' willingness to accept his or her political guidance.
Furthermore, in one way or another, all domestic economic activity in turn revolved around it.
Presidential elections have revolved around three leading candidates in the period 1988-97.
A distinguished feature of these researches was that all findings revolved around such classical themes as lineage, ritual and spiritual beliefs.
The fundamental dynamics of the political system revolved around the regime and opposition party leaders.
At another level, the dispute revolved around which strategy was best to confront the bakery owners.
Tensions revolved around two fundamental issues: the budgetary resources required to implement compulsory schooling and the role municipalities were to play in this endeavour.
If accusations came from the civilians, in most cases the concerned families of equal rank and the issue revolved around personal conflicts.
First, interest has revolved around various socio-economic and demographic characteristics of those individuals who participate in lotteries.
Ensuing demands for justice by both sides revolved around the issue of sovereignty, which throughout remained ill-defined and open-ended, leading to unpredictable outcomes.
Here the argument has revolved around whether we see the connecting word as a conjunction or a preposition.
The project revolved around setting up 260 contraceptive supply depots with the depot holder as the key figure.
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