Many of the new SNP intake are women with impressive hinterlands: Jo Cherry, a highly regarded QC, spent time as one of Scotland's first specialist sex crimes prosecutors and the multifaceted Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh is a lawyer, businesswoman and a popular screen actor on the Asian subcontinent.
For a few hours, music could sweep away the grief and fear stalking alongside the disease that has killed almost 5,000 people across west Africa since the outbreak began in this market town in the lush hinterlands of the country.
Hebei's failure to develop more rapidly is in marked contrast with the hinterlands of Shanghai and Shenzhen.
The frequently bloody animosity between the Druze and the Maronites, who together dominate the country's mountain hinterlands, has been a staple of Lebanese life since the 19th century.
True, the various ports and shores of the Mediterranean influenced one another (if war is regarded as a form of influence), but the impact of hinterlands and of distant powers, like Russia and America, was also huge.Marshalling a vast array of intricate detail, Mr Abulafia takes the reader from the age of the Phoenicians and Trojans to the advent of modern tourism.
For the East-Coast rich, banishing one's offspring to the hinterlands is a time-honoured summer tradition.
These groups include a local branch of al-Qaeda, which has sought a haven in the country's lawless hinterlands.
Meanwhile, its few thousand remaining guerrillas hide in the hinterlands and, in effect, do nothing to further the creation of a democratic socialist state fit for workers and peasants.The government no longer regards the communists as a national security threat, and military and police operations against them have been low-key.
Voters have yet to warm to either, but both, in private, are laddishly garrulous and boast extensive hinterlands (Mr Balls is football-mad; Mr Osborne's rock-music collection reputedly stunned even Eric Clapton).Mr Balls has long spoken of the dangers to a fragile economy of hasty spending cuts, and this week's alarming GDP figures lend some weight to his warnings.
They point to the establishment of Regional Development Agencies, gatherings of the great and good charged with encouraging growth in the hinterlands.
They still hoped that it might provide a lucrative back door to China, and in 1866 sent an expedition to explore both the Mekong's course and its commercial potential.The leader of the expedition died en route, and the survivors brought back grim reports of impassable rapids and lawless hinterlands.
