Sentence examples for heartland for from inspiring English sources

As before, California has become the heartland for railroad dreams.

The party has taken its Scottish heartland for granted for years.

"Ray Chambers' idea was to bring it back to the heartland, for a city atmosphere.

Civility in Kansas and the rest of the heartland, for example, remains intact.

Before the British blundered into Helmand there was no heartland for the Taliban to terrorise.

We have been growing corn in the heartland for nearly 70 years.

At times, Labour has appeared to take the support of our heartlands for granted.

"They think there has been a complacency in some of our Labour heartlands for far too long.

He has told the Countryside Alliance: "If the party is seen to be against fox control and unwilling to support farmers, we will lose our rural heartlands for a generation, and perhaps for ever".

And the parties sometimes take their heartlands for granted: Labour's neglect of Scotland is one reason the Scottish National Party is thriving.Regional political strongholds are not such a problem in federal countries.

The journeys in Robinson in Ruins take place close by – Berkshire and Oxfordshire, heartlands for the hugely powerful agrarian capitalism that both precedes and succeeds the more tangible, urban and industrial capitalism of the north and the Midlands.