Sentence examples for metropole from inspiring English sources
The word 'metropole' is correct and can be used in written English
It is used to describe a major city and its surrounding area, particularly one that has a dominant political or cultural influence in a region. For example: Beijing is a bustling metropole at the heart of Chinese culture.
noun
A metropolis; the main city of a country or area.
However, the British demands that the colony pay for its administration, produce raw materials for the metropole, and provide a market for Britain's manufactures and a home for its unemployed ineluctably drew Britain into defending the colonists, expanding their territory, and transforming the Cape's mercantile economy.
De Gaulle, however, refused to exhibit any guilt or doubt about France's mission civilisatrice and offered the populations a choice between going it alone or joining a linguistic, monetary, and development community with the former metropole.
Initially, the instructions included lots of complicated mechanics — for example, if you had enough cities and settlements in a cluster, you could create a metropole — but eventually, Teuber said, "I cooked it to the heart of the game".
Standardization was also a way of reprogramming life elsewhere in the default settings of the metropole.
As Charles Maier explained in "Among Empires" (2006), this is how empires traditionally work: local élites are created that ape the manners and values of the metropole — the imperial center — whether it is Moscow or Washington, London or Rome.
In her book, the metropole is Paris, the eternal center of the literary universe (she is, after all, French); but it might be London or New York as well.
Basement Jaxx's music has always hinted at the epic and symphonic, so one can understand the temptation to take things one step further by employing an actual orchestra, Metropole Orkest of the Netherlands, to reinterpret their hits in quasi-classical mode.
Diners at the Hotel Metropole in Monaco are still willing to shell out €137 for a grand dish of rock lobster.But the outlook for the rich is no longer the "glad, confident morning" that it seemed just two years ago.
"The wealthy are not going to economise on good taste .Luca Virgilio, who runs the Hotel Metropole in Monaco, says it would be a mistake for him to compromise on quality; clients visit the hotel precisely because it is luxurious.
Meanwhile back in Hong Kong, where a doctor had brought Sars from mainland China to the Hotel Metropole, infecting several guests including Chen, hospitals were facing similar battles against a disease that still did not have a name.
I was instructed by the police in Chapel Street to make my way over to the Hilton Metropole Hotel... Louise Barry On her way to a job interview; evacuated from Edgware Road station at the time of explosion before getting on the No 30 bus that was blown up in Tavistock Square.
