Heartland controls 6% of the company.
Today east India remains coal's heartland and control of the sooty stuff lies with one of the most important companies that most people have never heard of: Coal India.It is a mighty odd beast.
The Nato announcement came as the Syrian army, backed by Russian air strikes, fought heavy battles against rebel groups in the Assad regime's heartland for control of a hilltop in Jub al Ahmar, a highland area in Latakia province which, if captured, would allow the army more effectively to pound rebel positions from the Ghab Plain.
American-funded units are trying to tackle jihadists in their heartland, where government control is minimal, notably in the provinces of Abyan, Shabwa and Marib.But American aid is not always used for its intended purpose.
The politics loomed larger with elections coming this fall for five state legislatures, four of them in the Hindi-speaking heartland that is controlled by the opposition Congress Party.
As it turned out, Russia was then facing both war and revolution, and could not fully control the heartland, to say nothing of ruling the entire world.
Without the main airport of the Donets Basin, Ukraine's industrial heartland, under full government control, even the basic practicality of fulfilling his pledge to visit was in question.
The Reds controlled the heartland of what had been the Russian Empire, inhabited by some 70 million Russians, while their opponents operated on the periphery, where the population was sparser and ethnically mixed.
This is China's strategic and military heartland, central to one-party control.
