Metropolitan centres have considerably more freedom in organization and operation.
The influx of displaced peoples into the cities of Assyria created large metropolitan centres.
However, many also migrated to large metropolitan centres in the United States.
There has, nevertheless, been a decrease in the city-proper populations of the large metropolitan centres.
In Cromarty he had the usual advantages and limitations of a local collector far from metropolitan centres.
Although lacking great metropolitan centres, Saskatchewan has developed creditable art galleries as well as professional theatre and musical venues.
And this experience of working outside the metropolitan centres was to be central to his radical perspective.
This provided the labour force for the various public works in the metropolitan centres of the Assyrian empire.
Graham's crusades, often conducted in major metropolitan centres, were but the best known of many such revivals.
In the decades to come, building production will concentrate in the metropolitan centres of the world due to the migration of the world's population to the major cities.
Osborne's rose-tinted image shows the development of an urban mega-region: the agglomeration of metropolitan centres linked together by large public infrastructural projects.
