Sentence examples for huge centres from inspiring English sources

In political terms, the issue that is posed appears to be whether these huge centres of population can continue as effective communities with democratically manageable governments.

His duchy of Friedland was turned into a huge centre of armaments and supply services.

Britannia may no longer rule the waves as the merchant fleet has shrunk or fled offshore, but London remains a huge centre for shipping services.

Add a huge centre-right majority in parliament and an opposition in disarray, and he may well seem safe enough.In this section The unions say no.

"WHEN I was a kid in the 70s, this stunk," says Jim Rooney of the Boston Convention Centre, talking about South Boston's waterfront, where his huge centre stands.

But other plans seem decidedly more urban than social: a green belt around the city, new metro lines, a river park and an "innovation district", which already boasts a huge centre for startups and other technology firms.

This week France's government with a huge centre-right majority in parliament came up with the answer: change the rules for France's elections to its regional councils and the European Parliament.

Alfred Ford, a great-grandson of the motoring legend, Henry, has outraged the conservative Russian Orthodox Church with his plans to build a huge centre for Hare Krishna and Vedic religion worshippers in the centre of Moscow.

The US firm was due to begin construction of a huge centre for packing and delivery beside Lyon airport in south-east France this year, but two local associations have lodged legal files to halt the build.

Serginho, the huge centre-forward who played in Brazil's sublime 1982 side, is one of the most notorious and derided footballers of all time: the man whose inability to put it in the onion bag made the whole of Brazil cry; the donkey who infiltrated Brazil's passing carousel and, by common consensus, cost them the World Cup.

Colin Glover, chief executive of The Connection at St Martin's, a huge centre for the homeless on Trafalgar Square, says he and colleagues had given much thought to new uses for the space once all the rough sleepers had been comfortably housed, contemplating making it into a college for the ex-homeless.