Sentence examples for center of support from inspiring English sources

Pakistani officials consider the area a center of support for extremist jihadist groups, including Lashkar-e-Taiba.

That, we hope, leaves him the large center of support he'll need it to fix this country's broken agriculture policy.

The Pentagon has long viewed Yemen as a center of support for Osama bin Laden, the Qaeda leader.

Basra is a predominantly Shiite city and a center of support for the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.

The area of the protest, the Abobo neighborhood, has been a center of support for Mr. Ouattara and has often been the scene of violent clashes between security forces and civilians.

Other officials were already worrying aloud about the safety of their families in places like Surt, a center of support for Colonel Qaddafi that has also come under attack by NATO planes.

The repercussions of the latest fighting, which began in Najaf last week and quickly spread to other centers of support for Mr. Sadr, intensified when officials of the state-owned oil industry said Iraq's largest oil fields, in the southern region around Basra, had stopped pumping oil on Monday after Mr. Sadr's militiamen had threatened to attack oil fields, refineries and pipelines.

Although General Musharraf theoretically has unlimited powers as a military ruler, he is constrained in practice by strong centers of support for Islamic militancy in the Pakistani officer corps and in the hard-line Islamic groups that have proliferated across the country in the last decade.

Also on Sunday, a car bomb exploded in Aleppo, Syria's largest city, a day after two similar bombings struck the capital, Damascus, fueling fears that the conflict was becoming increasingly violent, with attacks on relatively quiet cities that are centers of support for President Bashar al-Assad.

Further, the effects of non-constant dispersion between groups appear more pronounced when the group means are near the boundary of the distributions support (0 or 1) compared to when they are near the center of the support.

Abidjan, the commercial capital, is a center of Gbagbo support, and an extended fight for control of that city could lead to high casualties, they said.