"The major currents of thought and influential centres of economic, cultural and political power are responsible," he added.

Soul sleep has been called a "major current of seventeenth century protestant ideology."

Hinduism as it is commonly known can be subdivided into a number of major currents.

Gnawa music is one of the major musical currents in Morocco.

Mr. Shaw wrote more than a dozen books and many articles on most of the major currents in 20th-century American popular music.

In the early 19th century, three major political currents took shape in Cuba: reformism, annexation and independence.

Broadly speaking, the surface currents have been mapped, but even major deep currents may remain undiscovered.

Hinduism as we know it can be subdivided into a number of major currents.

A critical evaluation of these four major currents of thought however, reveals certain common characteristics.

There are five major coastal currents affiliated with upwelling zones.