21.  Rebels had advanced to the outskirts of Jaffna, the city that they regard as the cultural capital of the Tamils.

22.  The monograph is the cultural capital of scholarship.

23.  The Tigers have been on a successful military march to reclaim Jaffna, the cultural capital of the Hindu Tamil-dominated north in this majority Buddhist Sinhalese nation.

24.  We escape to Cuenca, the third-largest city in Ecuador that is sometimes called its cultural capital.

25.  Yet comparisons can be instructive when considering the kind of commitment it takes to be recognized as a world-class cultural capital.

26.  Melina Mercouri, the late Greek actress and former politician, first established the idea of the European cultural capital.

27.  Nidhi Aeusrivongse has pointed out how cultural capital, like other forms of capital, can easily be depleted if the reinvestment rate is too low.

28.  Sharjah, which has just been named the cultural capital of the Middle East, tops all other emirates in the preservation of Arab culture and traditions.

29.  The society falls back on its stock of cultural capital.

30.  Today, he argues, the government needs to invest in cultural capital for the future.