Sentence examples for epicentre of it from inspiring English sources

"Not only have we faced the biggest banking crisis of my lifetime and your lifetime, the deepest recession since the second world war, but also Britain was at the epicentre of it".

Being on the "against" side of this protest and working at Admiralty, at the epicentre of it, does bring a bit of unwanted stress.

"This is the epicentre of where it all began in 2001," he said.

And if there's an epicentre of that culture, it may be Paris Hilton's shoe closet.

It also is (or was) the epicentre of UK hipsterism, and it shows what the intelligence agencies are up against – not just bad guys, but cooler employers.

Berlin may be universally known as the clubbing and electronic music epicentre of the world but it was another German city that arguably gave birth to it several decades earlier.

It's been the epicentre of the drug war and it's where you have certain parish priests on the front line," said Dr Andrew Chesnut, a leading expert on religion in Latin America.

"This part of town was the epicentre of the violence, so it had been abandoned," she says.

Deneuve's Earl's Court apartment is a stone's throw from the Kings Road epicentre of Swinging London but it could be on a different planet.

"And if we do not stand up and put women in the epicentre of decision making, whether it's boardrooms, government boards, politics, cabinet rooms, wherever, if you don't have women there, we will not exist".

Magnitude 9 The volcanic Russian peninsula was near the epicentre of the quake, but it was the Hawaiian islands that took the brunt of the tsunami that caused a million dollars' worth of damage as waves scoured the coasts, ripping boats from their moorings and, in Honolulu harbour, lifting a cement barge before throwing it down on to a freighter.