Nationally, Mr Martin inherits a Liberal party perched squarely at the political centre.
Sprawling across 180 acres of downtown Beijing, this vast palace served as the symbolic and political centre of the Chinese world for more than five centuries.
Much may depend on whether Mr Erdogan can strengthen his hold over the political centre, and on how independent President Gul proves to be.
The support he would win from the broad political centre, he presumably calculates, would more than make up for defections on the religious right.
Instead of simply naming Melbourne or Sydney as the major political centre, an agreement of a newly-built city equidistant between the two was the compromise.
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If anyone can determine where the political centre lies, can't they?
Conveniently, a gap may be opening in the political centre.
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In a form of make-believe known in professional wrestling as "kayfabe", RJ Brewer is said to be from Phoenix, Arizona, arguably the political centre of the US anti-illegal immigration movement.
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But unless he is foolish enough to imagine that defence of the pound can win him a general election as well as a European one, he has yet to produce a big idea that can challenge a Labour government that has seized the political centre.
Nonna Mayer, a political analyst who specialises in the extreme right at the CNRS Centre for Political Science in Paris, warns this election could show even stronger support for the Le Pens.
Known today, rather prosaically, as Angkor Archaeological Park, the 150-square-mile site was the political and cultural centre of the Khmer empire and at its peak supported a population of one million.
Agricultural rents fluctuate, the centre of political power shifts, old families rise and fall.
The groups will be given money to modernise themselves and set up a new centre for political activities in London.
So, if anything, the centre of political gravity in Germany has shifted toward the more pro-European parties in the past six months.
Among Tory fans, in contrast, Mr Clegg is hailed as a man whose destiny is to re-draw the political map on the centre-right.
The bank has close political ties to the centre-left Democratic party.
We are a centre left political party who believes in certain values - social justice, community, opportunity for all, but we're realising those in today's world.
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But these may not go far enough towards transforming the fundamental structural inequalities and political inconsistencies at the centre of current global crises, poverty and unsustainable development.
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By staying in power as prime minister, argues Boris Makarenko of the Centre for Political Technologies, Mr Putin at least has a chance to revise the legacy of his rule.
In a 1999 poll conducted by the Joint Centre for Political and Economic Studies, blacks were twice as likely as whites to cite crime, violence and drugs as the most important problems facing the country.
ASEAN's centre of political gravity.
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As for the debtors, in Greece voters are drifting from the centre to the political extremes.
From the 1950s until the 1990s the Republican Party broadly represented the centre of the political spectrum in America.
However, they are now joined by others who are increasingly suspicious of Mr Blair's stated intention of creating a centre-left political bloc.
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As ever, the arguments will centre on the political and economic implications.
What is certain is that the whole issue of the single currency is now going to move back to the centre of the political stage.
Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, threw in the towel at a gathering of fellow centre-left political leaders just before the main summit, accepting that Mr Blair's candidacy was finished.
The former chancellor is at the centre of a political funding scandal that has already claimed a number of casualties in the opposition Christian Democratic Union, including his successor as party leader, Wolfgang Schaeuble.
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