But this is what took place two years ago in the heartland of England's shires. |
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When professional rugby union began, there were still many genuine amateurs, most notably in the heartland Olympic sports, who trained harder. |
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It seems that the redbreast, while most popular with younger voters, has lost much of its traditional heartland support. |
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Broad swathes of the country's industrial heartland are now chronically short of electricity. |
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Broad swathes of China's industrial heartland are now chronically short of electricity. |
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Morganton's struggles are playing out not just across many other parts of North Carolina but also through swaths of the American heartland. |
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Turkey's Anatolian heartland consists of a lot of mountains, and river valleys all traveling in unhelpful directions. |
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Why, in the heartland of Central Canada, where trains are allegedly a reasonable means of transportation, aren't train stations not dives? |
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How did a former potato field in the English heartland come to be the site of four of the past five European Ryder Cups? |
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Each of these powers flourished in a Mackinder heartland and saw its destiny in mercantilist imperial expansion. |
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The British relied strongly on the Sunni elite, which grabbed power and privilege for itself, alienating the Shiite heartland. |
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In the end, Forney takes his show on the road, performing live with his son at a heartland music festival to a bewildered audience of twelve. |
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If one looks hard enough, one can even find beginnings of modernisation of internal and external institutions in the Middle Eastern heartland. |
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Many Arawakan languages are now extinct, but a few survive in the former heartland region of the Amazon-Orinoco. |
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That said, there were also areas of the Sunni heartland where turn-out was scarce and intimidation appeared to have won. |
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It seems that forked blades might have first originated in Sanxingdui and were exported eastward to the central heartland. |
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Though coming from a football heartland, he had an even bigger interest and love for hurling. |
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Finding plain speaking was not so unusual in the rustic heartland of those days. |
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In this heartland of rice paddies and small towns, family means a lot and sympathy for the recently bereaved even more. |
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Here in the heartland we have a heart for families, and this is how deeply we feel about marriage. |
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It is a dry land of mountains and steppes, with some plains in the valleys of the heartland. |
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The heartland stood in opposition to the maritime or oceanic lands, and would triumph. |
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A trip down to the corner store for bread and milk has become a tour through nationalism's heartland, a shift not lost on the city's buskers. |
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Over the years thousands of Ndebele were violently removed from their actual heartland to be dumped in a virtual wilderness. |
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The Washington Post reports that the wave of violence in the Sunni Arab heartland continued unrelentingly on Thursday. |
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Located in an unmapped portion of Siberia, the heartland of Mother Russia, Camp Internet is the ideal environment for summer fun. |
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This is the heartland of Bavarian tradition, full of slatted wooden houses with wide overhanging eaves and balconies cascading with geraniums. |
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None of the council's four Sunni members represents the rural areas of the Sunni heartland. |
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The notion seems to be that the mere look, the urbanity, the smirking of blue staters appalls the skittish people of the heartland. |
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On the news tonight, a reporter made much of a family's grief and joy, somewhere in the heartland. |
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In the Roman empire this took the form of the payment of tributes by the outlying provinces back to the Roman heartland. |
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The vote or die campaign that was launched by young Afro and white Americans stung the heartland of America to the quick. |
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The fact of the matter is, this administration has turned a deaf ear to the industrial heartland. |
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The film was a hit in big cities, but did little in the American heartland. |
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He has the name and voice of a raddled troubadour chasing his dissolution around the American heartland. |
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He was a white, male Afrikaner from the heartland of the volk, the Free State. |
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Too few troops on the ground going in left the heartland unconquered and rearguard supply troops vulnerable to attack. |
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In the Midwest, cucumber beetles will arrive in August, posing the same problems for heartland rosarians as Japanese beetles do for most rosarians east of the Rockies. |
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How did there come to be so many Buddhists living in Kalmykia, an Ireland-sized region on Europe's eastern edge, thousands of miles from the religion's Asian heartland? |
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It was Namangani's first attempt to strike out from his mountain hideouts to the strategic heartland of Central Asia, the fertile, densely populated Ferghana Valley basin. |
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But by ignoring the problems now festering in the heartland, Congress and the White House will end up diluting the fiscal stimulus over which they are battling so hard. |
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Crossing these landscapes are the meandering valleys of the rivers Avon, Stour, and Frome that link the south coast with the interior heartland of southern England. |
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Turkish leaders object to any Kurdish grab of Kirkuk, in the country's second biggest oil region and considered by Iraqi Kurds as part of their heartland. |
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Back in the heartland of India, farmers, tired of the farming life and dreaming of the glory of soldiers decide to try to use their draft horses in combat. |
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With the heartland hungry for a different kind of change, Pence is the conservative antidote to arugula. |
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For many years, the SPD was able to achieve an absolute majority in the Ruhr, the former heartland of steel and coal production, in which five million people still live. |
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He's been credited with creating an aching portrait of the fading American heartland, but Alexander Payne isn't all that excited by idle flattery. |
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And maybe, just maybe, there are black helicopters with United Nations decals about to descend on heartland America. |
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Zarqawi never made any secret that his real target was the Safavid heartland itself, Iran. |
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Yes, she grew up in Kikbirnie, heartland of the Ayrshire steelworks, where her school chums rejoiced in names like Lenin McKay and Joseph Stalin McGregor. |
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It may have reached the left coast, but not the heartland of America. |
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The cities of the heartland came into existence, first and foremost, as economic entities. |
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We'll all pretend to be duly chastised by our libertine ways and pay obeisance to those good heartland values that neither they nor we actually live by. |
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On Saturday morning, about 4000 squatters rocked up at a piece of land in the Bredell area in South Africa's industrial heartland, the Gauteng province. |
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Meanwhile, American intelligence has not yet detected signs of coordination between the Sunni rebellion in Iraq's heartland and the Shiite insurgency. |
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The modern version of globalization, by contrast, is run more along Roman lines, in which the provinces are milked to pay for the bread and circuses of the imperial heartland. |
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Thus, any Iraqi army offensive in the Sunni Arab heartland is unlikely to succeed without local partners. |
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Rep. Dana Rohrabacher had an odd warning last week for the heartland Institute. |
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So it is with genuine dread that I have read about the latest tick-borne illness, this one called the heartland Virus. |
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The ultimate public health impact of heartland Virus remains to be seen but is likely to be limited. |
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If you like sweet corn, or presidential politics, this is a good time to be in the heartland. |
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His heartland is the west of Scotland, particularly Glasgow, which is dotted with his Ashoka restaurants like a tablecloth flecked in korma sauce. |
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Since eastern Francia could be identified with old Austrasia, the Frankish heartland, Louis's choice of terminology hints at his ambitions. |
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Diodorus Siculus and Strabo both suggest that the heartland of the people they called Celts was in southern France. |
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Tall and heavyset, he felt more at home in the Nejd, the kingdom's desert heartland, riding stallions and hunting with falcons. |
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It is unlikely that Offa had significant influence in the early years of his reign outside the traditional Mercian heartland. |
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We tried our product in the heartland of Wales, in a dozen or so small shops in Caernarvonshire. |
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Clovis's sons made their capitals near the Frankish heartland in northeastern Gaul. |
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The Red Lands, in the far south and southwest, are Luxembourg's industrial heartland and home to many of Luxembourg's largest towns. |
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The son of a mining captain, and born in the mining heartland of Cornwall, Trevithick was immersed in mining and engineering from an early age. |
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From tanks to machine guns to the humble Jerrican, the industrial heartland had done its bit. |
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Isolated communities were less susceptible to interference and the politics of the heartland. |
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Journeys to the Spanish rugby heartland of Valladolid may have produced walk-overs on the field, but life-long friends off it. |
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While the heartland is chugging right along, the economies of Southern California and New England are still taking on water. |
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He said more than 5,000 weapons had been surrendered so far to DIAG in the Taliban's southern heartland. |
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Denmark became part of a Lutheran heartland extending through Scandinavia and northern Germany. |
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Central and western Europe, logistically more distant from the Central Asian heartland, proved less vulnerable to these threats. |
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Along with Yorkshire and Cumberland, Lancashire is recognised as the heartland of Rugby League. |
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By January 1283, Edward I of England had the heartland of independent Wales ringed with a massive army. |
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Throughout the Sunni heartland, the government has simply imploded. |
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They were interested in the Amur since it was the northern border of the original Manchu heartland. |
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After crossing this river, they invaded the Dutch heartland, getting as far as the city of Amersfoort, which promptly surrendered. |
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The conclusions drawn from one laboratory in America's heartland aren't going to sway the muscle-bound believers. |
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It has selected Liz Saville Roberts to stand in the heartland seat of Dwyfor Meirionnydd, where Plaid Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd is standing down. |
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The Turks were then free to invade Asia Minor, which dealt a dangerous blow to the Byzantine Empire by seizing a large part of its population and its economic heartland. |
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The Thames is the historic heartland of rowing in the United Kingdom. |
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Even after the loss of all of Liaodong, the Ming army held the heavily fortified Shanhai Pass, preventing the Manchus from conquering the Chinese heartland. |
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The Central Valley is California's productive agricultural heartland. |
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Traditionally the kingdom has been seen as centred on central Scotland, equivalent to the Kingdom of the Southern Picts, with a heartland perhaps in Strathearn. |
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It was the heartland of rivals, the MacWilliams and MacHeths. |
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Drought persisted in the agricultural heartland, businesses and families defaulted on record numbers of loans, and more than 5,000 banks had failed. |
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By February 1945, the Soviets brought the war to the German heartland. |
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The fact that the scheme was restricted to Italy suggests that it might have been conceived as a form of political privilege accorded to the original heartland of the empire. |
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Rome was seen by the Western Church as Christianity's heartland. |
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Internally the Grand Canal linked the political heartland in Chang'an to the agricultural and economic centers in the eastern and southern parts of the empire. |
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The orders' provinces are usually far larger than a diocese, a secular province, or even a country, though sometimes they are smaller in an institute's heartland. |
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Sax and Wurlitzers and just the right dash of funky electric guitar funk kick up what are basically sentimental heartland rockers of the Mellencamp variety. |
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Despite its inherited mistakes, Rohan believed the empire was not only reformable but also the precondition for maintaining unity in Europe's heartland. |
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With headquarters just outside Amsterdam, Audion Elektro got its start at the very center of the European Community's commercial and technological heartland. |
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We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions. |
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Tall and heavyset, Abdullah felt more at home in the Nejd, the kingdom's desert heartland, riding his favourite stallions and hunting with falcons. |
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