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The area is now largely encompassed by Pakistan's notorious North-West Frontier Province, nerve-center of the cross-border Taliban insurgency, with Peshawar as its regional capital.

Diplomatic Deliverance Melik Kaylan 2011

"This is necessary in order to avoid fly-by-night, reckless and excitable flexing of muscles and decisions that overlook certain fundamentals that could irreparably harm the nerve-center of our recovering economy."

Zimbabwe gives foreign firms 14-day ultimatum Reuters 2011

It may be time for another galvanizing "Pearl Harbor-type event"; one that will strike at the legislative nerve-center of American democracy.

Anticipating a Terrorist Attack on Congress 2005

Once again, the target of Bush's assault on Padilla was habeas corpus, the ideological nerve-center of American jurisprudence

The Senate agrees to Imprisonment without Charges 2005

FOUR The Arc 16 Experimental Station's nerve-center was four levels down from the Extraction Room, the kitchen, and Nigel's study.

The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004

It whisked him to his destination, and ten seconds later he stepped out into the familiar bustle of the nerve-center of Deep Space Nine.

The Heart of the Warrior John Gregory Bentacourt 2000

It whisked him to his destination, and ten seconds later he stepped out into the familiar bustle of the nerve-center of Deep Space Nine.

The Heart of the Warrior John Gregory Bentacourt 2000

It whisked him to his destination, and ten seconds later he stepped out into the familiar bustle of the nerve-center of Deep Space Nine.

The Heart of the Warrior John Gregory Bentacourt 2000

It whisked him to his destination, and ten seconds later he stepped out into the familiar bustle of the nerve-center of Deep Space Nine.

The Heart of the Warrior John Gregory Bentacourt 2000

After all, this was the nerve-center of the fleet.

Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973