Most notably there is very little about that epicenter of global conflict we call the Middle East.
We have moved out of the epicenter of racial conflict that rocked our nation from the time of conquest through slavery, the Japanese internment and the tumultuous days of the civil rights era.
Mr. Singh was speaking to a conference on internal security in the capital, New Delhi, four days after Maoists led a jailbreak that freed 300 prisoners from a local jail in Chhattisgarh, the epicenter of the conflict.
JERUSALEM — At the heart of this contested city, the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, has become, for many, the epicenter of the conflict between Israel, the Palestinians and the wider Muslim world.
With swords being replaced by guns, the violence at the epicenter of the conflict is more dangerous and the desperation for love and belonging is more evident.
Mehmed's ambitions were symmetrical to Alfonso's and it was clear that there would be some sort of clash between the two in Albania, the epicenter of the conflict.
Even in Akron, Ohio -- selected for study because it was the scene of a bitter sit-down strike in 1935 and 1936 at the city's massive rubber factories and was widely considered an epicenter of class conflict -- most workers sought compromise with their employers and decisively rejected radically egalitarian ideologies.
At the epicenters of the conflict -- where the belief that "only force can assure justice" seems to be even stronger than when I. F. Stone wrote about it 41 years ago -- the conclusion has been drawn and redrawn so many times that deadly repetition has become paralytic.
Though Afghanistan has become the first battleground in America's war against terrorism, Pakistan could well be the political epicenter of this unfolding conflict.
"Baltimore finds itself at the epicenter of a national conflict between urban and rural populations of color and the law enforcement agencies that are sworn to protect and serve them," Mosby acknowledged.
But to a handful of optimistic businessmen here, Mount Nyiragongo is central to an effort to transform eastern Congo, best known as the epicenter of the deadliest conflict since World War II, into a tourist attraction.
