Assertion: railway | /r/HasProperty | central
Facets:
value: to economic growth
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to commerce
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The standard historical interpretation holds that the railroads were central to the development of a national market in the United States and served as a model of how to organize, finance and manage a large corporation.
text: Railways are central to the formation of modernity and ideas of progress.
text: Railroads were long central to economic growth and commerce, and still are to some extent.