vital center

When it came to free speech, America still needed a “vital center.”

The next president faces a host of problems, and solving them will require finding or creating a vital center in Washington.

He overemphasized social issues to keep the base happy—taking focus away from issues of most concern to the vital center.

Such a beam would require good aiming, being narrow, but if it touched a vital center would be infallibly fatal.

No mark distinguished it as the vital center of a nation's foreign business.

He strives clearly to reach the bottom, to penetrate even the vital center of the hortensia's umbel.

Christian experience is in continual danger of drifting from this vital center.

There is no one vital center to the modern movement which disaster can strike or decay undermine.