Sentence examples for heartland it from inspiring English sources

Brian Eno collaborator Jon Hassell had already pointed out that "In African villages, musical instruments are made from things that are closest at hand", whereas in hip-hop's urban heartland "it happens to be shards of James Brown or other cultural artefacts that are rearranged and recombined".

Some analysts believe that as Isis loses ground in its heartland it is likely to mount more widespread attacks in the west and across the Islamic world to maintain strategic momentum and bolster its position as the highest-profile organisation among Islamic militant groups.

The recent elections in both Finland and Denmark suggest that even in its Nordic heartland, it is no longer seen as a European value but as a national, even an ethnic, possession, to be kept for "our people" alone.

Now that it is losing its geographical heartland, it will increasingly become an ideological state intent on destruction, fuelled by implacable hatred and vengeance, and assisted by anyone it can enlist or influence, however indirectly, to carry out acts of violence it can then claim.

And while its appeal is strong in the heartland it has travelled well too, providing career-best opening weekends for Clint Eastwood in the UK, Taiwan, New Zealand, Peru and Italy.

In the heartland, it is claimed, some view the coastal cities as faintly un-American.

Dave Prentis, general secretary of the public services union Unison, said: "If Labour wants to reconnect with voters and with its own heartlands, it must hit the pause button and take stock of where some of its policies are heading".

The problem for Labour, however, is that in its northern heartlands, it is the Conservatives rather than Miliband et al who appear to have won the 'fairness' battle when it comes to welfare, leaving the opposition in a state of considerable difficulty.

Far from the Taliban's southern heartlands, it has suffered less than elsewhere from their violent resurgence.

It may be abuzz with excitement in the M62 corridor but Down South, supposedly the great new frontier for a game with ambitions to expand beyond the traditional heartlands, it has caused barely a ripple.

It's a small, pretty and very old town not far from Avignon with around 30,000 inhabitants, and in one of the traditional Front National heartlands it distinguished itself during the first round of the presidential elections on 22 April by delivering Marine Le Pen's highest vote: 31.5%, more even than she managed in her home base in the Pas de Calais.