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Examples
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Directing a swarming mob from the secret nerve-centre must be a buzz and a half.
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Back at Sukey's secret nerve-centre in east London, however, the team are celebrating a measured success.
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Theirs was an attack on India's financial nerve-centre and commercial capital, a city emblematic of the country's energetic thrust into the 21st century.
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Theirs was an attack on India's financial nerve-centre and commercial capital, a city emblematic of the country's energetic thrust into the 21st century.
Shashi Tharoor: Terrorism in Mumbai: Is It All Over for India? 2009
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The SGO should be the nerve-centre of headquarters
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It is proposed that a Provincial Manager be deployed in the Office of the Provincial Secretary to strengthen this provincial nerve-centre for political management, coordination and communication.
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It is therefore not surprising that this region also became the nerve-centre of political change in South Africa.
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It is therefore not surprising that this region also became the nerve-centre of political change in South Africa.
Address at the launch of the Gauteng expanded public works programme 2004
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It said that Johannesburg, the nerve-centre of the national economy, was at present a "slipping world city" and its future as an African success story and an attractive location for investors was not assured.
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Johannesburg, Shilowa said the province appreciated Absa's continuing investment because Johannesburg was the nerve-centre of finance, commerce and industry for the continent.
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