Sentence examples for epicentre from inspiring English sources

Cultured, cosmopolitan Sarajevo became the epicentre and the icon of this anguish.

It's epicentre is Mumbai where 45,000 of India's 61,000 Parsi-Irani Zoroastrians live.

The Mano river region, home to about 1 million people and an epicentre for the disease, is a major concern and the issue was raised on Wednesday with the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said Tim Evans, senior director for health at the World Bank.

"Our village has been almost wiped out," said Vim Tamang, a resident of Manglung, near the epicentre.

An earlier version referred to the epicentre, rather than centre, of a story big enough to accommodate Dyke's personality.

Koh Tao is a diving epicentre and, as a result, the main town, Mae Haad, is also a backpacker's haven, its narrow pathways and rising streets crammed with budget accommodation.

"Much of the economic impact of Ebola beyond the epicentre of directly affected West African countries is based on fear," reported the World Bank in January.

In the words of two Saudi government supporters: "To restore the 'caliphate', [Isis] would ultimately need to implant itself at the epicentre of Islamic life, the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina.

In addition, the government will commit to spend £15.5m in Somerset on flood defences over the next six years, benefiting 7,000 properties, including £4.2m on the Somerset Levels and moors, the epicentre of flooding last year.

This is mostly a calumny: the epicentre was the American mortgage market, one of the most regulated industries on Earth, and Leviathan's hand was all over much of the mess that followed.

But Mr Brenzovics has never gone as far as Jobbik, Hungary's far-right party, which calls Ukraine's crisis an opportunity to "finally resolve the situation of Transcarpathian Hungarians".The epicentre of Hungarian culture in Ukraine is Berehove, a city of 24,000 near the border that was only incorporated into Ukraine in 1945.