Sentence examples for diplomatic hub from inspiring English sources

Third, it has an unusually independent foreign policy, which has turned the emirate into a diplomatic hub.

When Muammar Qaddafi's government collapsed, in August, 2011, it became a diplomatic hub, where revolutionaries and journalists slept and worked as the city around them fell apart, and had only intermittent electricity and water.

Moreover, most Kenyans do cherish the freedoms uncorked by the multiparty system after 1991, despite the ferocity and messiness of tribal politics.Besides, though in terms of income per head Kenya is less far ahead of its neighbours than it was, it remains unchallenged as the commercial and diplomatic hub of the wider east African region.

As an old ally of America within NATO and a rare Muslim friend of Israel, Turkey has recently become a lot more hostile to the Jewish state and a lot less keen to act in unison in the region with the Americans.The implication of Mr Kinzer's study is that Turkey could serve as a diplomatic hub for bringing America, Israel and the Palestinians together.

Home to many of the city's consulates and embassies, the neighborhood has gone from a staid diplomatic hub to Ankara's choicest destination for an evening out, thanks to a dozen new restaurants and cafes that have opened over the past few years.

The Washington Post informs with a story out of Afghanistan about how the Department of State, after signing a ten-year lease and spending more than $80 million on a site envisioned as the United States' diplomatic hub in northern Afghanistan, have abandoned their plans.

Now the slender, soft-spoken former guerrilla has a chance to help chart the future of a city that many say is crying out for radical redefinition after decades of steadily losing its place as a diplomatic and business hub in Brazil.

Partly due to the airport, Atlanta has become a hub for diplomatic missions; as of 2012, the city contains 25 general consulates, the seventh-highest concentration of diplomatic missions in the United States.

Qatar sees hosting the World Cup as part of a much wider plan to position itself as the diplomatic, cultural and sporting hub of the region, future-proofed against the day when its natural gas reserves run out.

In the months that followed, Moscow became a hub of diplomatic activity, with everyone from Benjamin Netanyahu to the Emir of Qatar flocking to town for audiences with the Russian leader.

In a decade or two, they say, objections to Turkish entry will look trifling, next to the country's strategic benefits as an energy hub, regional diplomatic power and bridge to the Muslim world, not to mention as a dynamic economy filled with young people.Yet when it comes to the glacial pace of Turkey's formal membership negotiations, those same friends are starting to sound the alarm.