heartland
corazón
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noun
The 2003 challenge in areas ranging from urban heartlands to rural outposts attracted record entries of almost 100.
the central or most important part of a country, area, or field of activity.
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Indulge a little Midwestern fantasy: It may be the 'heartland' of America - the Bible belt even - but Kansas City just got a bit, well, sexier.
That said, there were also areas of the Sunni 'heartland' where turn-out was scarce and intimidation appeared to have won.
How did there come to be so many Buddhists living in Kalmykia, an Ireland-sized region on Europe's eastern edge, thousands of miles from the religion's Asian 'heartland' ?
And that's why we got to clamp down on these poisonous perverts burrowing into the midsection of our 'heartland' with their blasphemous ceremonies.
None of the council's four Sunni members represents the rural areas of the Sunni 'heartland' .
During the prime of the Roman Republic, roughly the last two centuries B.C., it served as a northern boundary protecting the 'heartland' of Italy and the city of Rome from its own imperial armies.
There are, and here in the 'heartland' , many are disturbed by what is increasingly being recognized as the high-jacking of their Faith and they are not accepting it.
Why, in the 'heartland' of Central Canada, where trains are allegedly a reasonable means of transportation, aren't train stations not dives?
In many ways they are quite liberal themselves, at least compared to the stereotype we are fed of the ‘average’ American from the 'heartland' .
As I write from the 'heartland' , in a small rural town in Northwest Ohio, the world, with the help of my government, is undergoing a process of reorganization.
If they could mobilize every Democratic vote in America's industrial centers - and in its populist 'heartland' as well - then they would win on math alone.
It seems that forked blades might have first originated in Sanxingdui and were exported eastward to the central 'heartland' .
a recession that battered the coasts while sparing the 'heartland'
And yet that version of the 'heartland' has never really existed anymore than George Washington's cherry tree or Jack Kennedy's virtue.
This city's Latino population grew by more than 1,500 percent over the past decade, part of a national trend of Latinos leaving the cities in search of America's 'heartland' .
the 'heartland' of the rebel cause
Each of these powers flourished in a Mackinder 'heartland' (the core area of Eurasia) and saw its destiny in mercantilist imperial expansion.
When reinforcements streamed from the 'heartland' of Tavisnane to support beleaguered garrisons, the people of the towns and cities they left behind rose up to reclaim their walls.
It was Namangani's first attempt to strike out from his mountain hideouts to the strategic 'heartland' of Central Asia, the fertile, densely populated Ferghana Valley basin.
Democrats, they say, are hopelessly out of touch with the deep family values practiced by born-again Christians in the South and Midwestern 'heartland' .
Such urban novels were doubly marginalised, as Scottish within a British context, and as urban within a context which identified rural, Gaelic and Scots-speaking areas as the 'heartland' of the nation.
Now we have 28 nations in this world that have ballistic missile capabilities, and it's folly for us not to provide a protection to the 'heartland' of America when we can do so and make it work.
What they aren't hearing are voices from the 'heartland' or for that matter voices from workers in Central America.
‘We've got to win in the 'heartland' of America,’ Reed said.
I know he's a real rancher and down home guy, but c'mon, the whole point of the interview is to find out what Democrats should do to win in the 'heartland' , and he dispenses advice about it quite freely.
And she also had a big hit in the 'heartland' called ‘The Bumper of My SUV.’
Some people might take offense to this, citing that the Midwest is the breadbasket or the 'heartland' , but I disagree.
wildlife sites in the 'heartland' of Russia
Is this what the president thinks of us folks in the 'heartland' ?
the 'heartland' of the rebel cause
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