nerve-centres

A seven-year-old child's arteries and nerve-centres are scarcely fitted to endure the terrific paroxysms that convulsed me.

Chapter 4 2010

The ANC Provincial Offices are depleted of core staff, making it difficult for them to fulfill their mandate as provincial nerve-centres of the organisation.

TOWARDS THE CENTENARY OF THE ANC 2007

Let me shake him off then, she said to herself, feeling like a person whose blood has been sucked, leaving all the nerve-centres pale.

The Years 2004

I am saying this as we are meeting at a time when the whole world is still shaken by the horrific attacks on the financial and defence nerve-centres of the United States of America on September

DEPUTY PRESIDENT ZUMA TO THE PLENARY OF THE 2ND SOUTH AFRICAN-SWEDISH BINATIONAL COMMISSION 2001

I am saying this as we are meeting at a time when the whole world is still shaken by the horrific attacks on the financial and defence nerve-centres of the United States of America on September

ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

Thanks to the co-ordination of the nerve-centres, to the formation and development of the greatest possible number of motor habits, my method assures the freest possible play to subconscious expression.

The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

The faculty of memory resides in all nerve-centres: the nature of that which is remembered depends upon the function of the individual centre.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

But here the law of habitual action asserted itself, and it was necessary to overcome the remembrance of the disease by the nerve-centres.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

These facts -- with many others -- tend to show that the power of maintaining a constant temperature has been a gradual development, as Darwin's theory of evolution suggests, and that anything that interferes with the due working of the higher nerve-centres puts the animal back again, for the time being, on to a lower plane of evolution.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

These possess neither brain nor spinal cord; their nerve-centres, instead of being concentrated in a cranium and vertebral canal, are entirely disseminated through the cavities of the trunk, as are the visceral plexuses in vertebrated animals.

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett