I found the answer (using blockquotes) from a thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=173888
Should have searched more
For future reference, the way to achieve what I need is:
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="" xml:lang="">
<head>
<title>index</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
</head>
<body>
<p align="center">
<b><font size="5">
Title Centered
</font></b>
</p>
<blockquote class="ieverse">
<pre style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;display: inline-block;">The text in this section
should be aligned to the left
But the whole paragraph
should be centered!</span></pre>
</blockquote>
<p align="center">
<img height="40%" src="abc.png"/>
</p>
</body>
</html>