Cities versus suburbs and rural areas is a better description than coasts versus heartland.

Representatives of an economically dynamic and socially conservative heartland are moving Turkey toward reform.

Traditionally, places like Sana a, Dhamar, Hajja and Amran are Zaydi, and the heartland is Sa dah.

She comes from the heartland of a successful and moderate civil society flanked by extremism and rage.

Australia, too, is grappling with serious droughts in the agricultural heartland of the Murray Darling River basin.

They gained in every part of the country, but especially in the industrial heartland from Pennsylvania to Wisconsin.

In May 2004, The New York Times polled readers in a city in the US heartland, Oswego, Illinois.

It is located in the heartland of the Masovian Plain, and its average elevation is above sea level.

The weakened state of the heartland of Greece coincided with the Rise of Macedon, led by Philip II.

The resulting mayhem has served only to spawn new suicide bombers willing to bring fresh terror to Russia s heartland.

Only a concerted law enforcement effort, with the full support of the intelligence services, can succeed in the Pakistani heartland.

And, even in the anti Yanqui heartland, with Chávez gone, there are credible rumors of mutual interest in improved US Venezuela relations.

The most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York, or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.

After the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak s 30 year old regime in Egypt, the heartland of the Middle East, amazement has turned into certainty.

With Myanmar as its heartland, the notorious Golden Triangle in mainland Southeast Asia is the world s second largest producer of opium after Afghanistan.

The recent floods in the heartland of Europe, in China and, of course, in this very country, might be seen as clear warnings.

To make his point, Lapid even launched his electoral campaign in Ariel, an Israeli city built in the heartland of the Palestinian West bank.

Once again, we see that the real terrorist sanctuaries are located not along Pakistan s borders with Afghanistan and India, but in the Pakistani heartland.

At the same time, potential Sunni Arab rivals like Hashemite Jordan and Egypt are reminded that Saudi Arabia remains the ideological heartland of Islam.

Forces built to defend the European heartland from a Soviet attack are unsuitable for the kinds of operations that define today s post Cold War environment.

There are families today near Xian, in what was the heartland of the Tang Dynasty Empire, with two acre dry wheat farms and a single goat.

The surge also opens, perhaps for the first time, a serious possibility of pouring water on the insurgent fires in Anbar province, the heartland of the Sunni insurgency.

Kadyrov s efforts can also be credited with ending major terrorist attacks in Russia s heartland, such as those that occurred in Moscow in 2002 and in Beslan in 2004.

Punjabi Taliban militants from the fighting in Kashmir against India continue to shuttle between the Punjab heartland and the Northwest Territories, posing another serious challenge to government authority.

The reason is that Livni is the quintessential envoy of Middle Israel. She comes from the heartland of a successful and moderate civil society flanked by extremism and rage.

It is mostly Jewish, though a young Arab professional class is now coming out of the universities and making its way with difficulties into the heartland of civil society.

But, when communism collapsed in its Eurasian heartland, the West s rich, believing that they had nothing more to fear, pressed to roll back the welfare state, causing inequality to rise rapidly.

And with this one campaign as our umbrella, my organization, DATA, and other groups, have been tapping into the energy and the enthusiasm that's out there from Hollywood into the heartland of America.

For them, Jewish settlements in the territories are not a return to historical lands, but security outposts, aimed at preventing or repelling from a better strategic position an attack on the Israeli heartland.

Their focus on inhibiting India seems particularly misguided, given that China s core interests (Tibet, Taiwan, and the heartland of the Chinese mainland) are far beyond the reach of most of India s military capabilities.

Likewise, the old Bretton Woods institutions came to be defined by a set of economic doctrines that has now been shown to fail not only in developing countries, but even in capitalism s heartland.

Double bladed Chinook helicopters, diverted from fighting Al Qaida in Afghanistan, now fly over the heartland of jihad and the militant training camps in Mansehra to drop food and tents a few miles beyond.

Origins Background Northern and Central Italy in the Late Middle Ages By the Late Middle Ages ( circa 1300 onward ), Latium, the heartland of the Roman Empire, and southern Italy, was poorer than the north.

A typical Western style house in Kampala or Accra, for example, now costs an astonishing two to three times the price of a comparable home in, say, Cleveland or other cities in the American heartland.

While 40 of Ukrainians, based mainly in Yanukovych s electoral heartland in the east and south of the country, would prefer to join the Customs Union, 60 of voters see their future with or in the EU.

Smaller members of the eurozone, particularly those on its periphery and with weaker economic links to the heartland of the EMU, become vulnerable to overheating and inflation when their ability to raise interest rates is abolished.

As the heartland of some of the strongest Islamist forces anywhere, this Saudi effort if successful and a harbinger of other needed changes may have an even more profound impact than the elections in Iraq and Palestine.

Speaking from the heartland of the troubled South, I can attest to the fact that the need for austerity has been the leitmotif of Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy s government, a course that gained explicit popular support in the recent elections.

The approach is simple a redoubled effort to reduce infections and deaths rapidly in the malaria heartland (i.e., equatorial Africa and a handful of other areas around the world) should be accompanied by a campaign to roll back the disease from its current margins.

Using the example of Halford Mackinder's Heartland Theory, he has shown how the presentation of Eastern Europe Western Russia as a key geopolitical region after World War I influenced actions such as the recreation of Poland and the Polish Corridor in the 1918 Treaty of Versailles.

As Afghan President Hamid Karzai is said by his critics to be on the verge of casting his lot with Pakistan and the Taliban, the Pentagon has signaled its fear that the war may spread beyond the Pashtun heartland to the largely Tajik and Uzbek areas in the north of the country.