Nelson McCausland talks optimistically about pulling Belfast's centre of gravity north from the city centre.
All the same, a dramatic shift in the Palestinians' political centre of gravity is in the offing.
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As a result, the centre of gravity of human capital and innovation is likely to shift towards Asia.
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With the batteries below the floor pan, the car's centre of gravity has been lowered, which improves handling.
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With Hamas's centre of gravity shifting back to Gaza via Cairo, Mr Haniyeh may be eyeing Mr Meshal's job.
For all his faults, Bill Clinton shifted the Democratic Party's centre of gravity on free trade, and law and order.
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As the capsule thunders downwards, it ejects ballast blocks to move its centre of gravity and tilt its angle of attack.
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The world's economic centre of gravity, from which much of this good news flows, is, needless to say, the United States.
The country's economic centre of gravity has shifted to the Arab-facing north.
Former Labour whip Graham Allen, who helped conduct the survey, said it showed the new "centre of gravity" on how reform should proceed.
Small, light cars need fancy suspension, the more so if they have a high floor and high centre of gravity to accommodate the engine.
That Mr Lapid is labelled a centrist perhaps shows you where the centre of gravity of Israeli opinion on such matters lies these days.
The Guardian welcomes an "extraordinary leap" from the conservatism of the last two papacies, and a "decisive shift in the church's centre of gravity".
Some worry that under Mr Esteves, who made his name as a star trader, the firm's centre of gravity might shift towards trading rather than client-driven business.
Scientists would need to know where the centre of gravity of any incoming asteroid was and how hard to hit it to deflect it without splitting it up.
He would simply fall over to his left, unless his body curved rightward to ensure his combined centre of gravity remained within the area defined by his feet.
Western Ukraine pulls its country's centre of gravity westward.
Above all, Brasilia has succeeded in what it was meant to do: shifting the country's centre of gravity towards its vast interior, after 450 years in which settlers had clung to the seaboard.
The new Mercedes V10 engine is not only sited lower in the car for a lower centre of gravity, it is also reputed to be the lightest power unit in F1 at a little over 90kg.
De Gaulle's vision of Franco-German reconciliation, of the building of a new European order with France and Germany as its centre of gravity, ended - according to one British historian - a historic enmity created by the division of Charlemagne's empire in the ninth century.
But if the ecumenists of the WCC and certain evangelicals are getting on better, it's probably because Christianity's centre of gravity is moving south to Africa and other poor places, where the ideological rows of the northern hemisphere often ring hollow, and churches dare not neglect either the spiritual or the material.
But something seems to have worried them, and they will now be reading the runes of a summit that ended with an unprecedented decision to cut EU spending, trying to evaluate whether this is a one-off or a symptom of a more troubling shift in Europe's centre of gravity - a move in a more sceptic direction.
But the Liberals' industrial base has contracted and Canada's centre of economic gravity has shifted, westward and towards natural resources.
So, if anything, the centre of political gravity in Germany has shifted toward the more pro-European parties in the past six months.
ASEAN's centre of political gravity.
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Dr Bilham says that the Indian government has even forbidden him to use a gravity meter in the region (such a meter measures whether a point is moving away from the centre of the earth, and therefore indicates a build up of strain that might be released as an earthquake).
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