revolve around

present singular third person revolves around · participle present revolving around · participle past revolved around · past revolved around

1. literallyTo rotate about (an axis); to orbit.

   The Earth revolves around the Sun.

2. idiomaticTo be essentially connected with; to concern.

   His life revolves around beer and bad jokes.

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   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.

   2003, Robert J. Shimonski et al., Building DMZs For Enterprise Networks, Syngress, page 50

   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.

   2014, Besfort T. Rrecaj, The Politics of Legal Regimes of Nuclear Energy in the Aspect of International Security, page 11