Sentence examples for significant centre from inspiring English sources

Arguably the most significant centre of European and Russian composition in the 1930s and 40s was New York.

Outside Paris, the only significant centre of printing in France was Lyon.

I do think there will be a significant centre ground elected and they could be influential in terms of the type of government being formed.

Like Mödling, Baden, Schwechat, Stockerau, and other cities in the urban environs of Vienna, Klosterneuburg is a significant centre of services and retail trade.

This is particularly well illustrated by Berlin, where manufacturing's importance has declined sharply; indeed, the city has become an increasingly significant centre for both public and private international and national service-sector institutions.

A significant centre of pilgrimage, it is used mainly by Russian speakers and ethnic Russians.

The monasteries of Hexham, Whitby, and Lindisfarne were also significant centres.

Reval (Tallin), Narva, Riga, and Libau (modern Liepāja, Latvia) emerged as significant centres of export and industry and as homes for substantial commercial fleets.

Corresponding to the functional purpose of drawing, the individual artists' studios (which, as was the case with the Medicis Academy of St . Mark, also had to engage in general educational and humanistic investigations) formed the most significant centres of art drawing.

With the middle-east and its oil rich city states emerging as ever more significant centres, the number of Arabic speakers in the UK is increasing, as are the number of Britons tempted by higher incomes and, in the case of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, zero income tax.

Harbours and market-places and pilgrimage sites – Venice, Naples, Genoa, Sicily, in Italy alone – begin to emerge as significant centres of talkative storytelling populations.