revolve around

English

Verb

revolve around (third-person singular simple present revolves around, present participle revolving around, simple past and past participle revolved around)

1. (literally) To rotate about (an axis); to orbit.

   The Earth revolves around the Sun.

2. (idiomatic) To be essentially connected with; to concern.

   His life revolves around beer and bad jokes.

   • 2003, Robert J. Shimonski et al., Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks‎^[1], Syngress, page 50:

     In Chapter 1 we learned the fundamental security concepts revolving around the DMZ, what the DMZ is, and how to design a basic DMZ with traffic flows.

   • 2014, Besfort T. Rrecaj, The Politics of Legal Regimes of Nuclear Energy in the Aspect of International Security‎^[2], page 11:

     However, at that time I was already into the mode and interest of another important topic of international law revolving around the principle of sovereignty and territorial integrity and self-determination related mainly to secessionist movements.