'a critical infrastructure' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a basic system that is essential for the functioning of a particular society or organization. For example, "The government has been making investments to strengthen a critical infrastructure of roads, railways, and other essential infrastructure."
"They do not want to be dependent on a critical infrastructure that they don't control," Gibbons said of the Europeans.
Without the "consciousness that only a critical infrastructure can supply," Ozick wrote, readers and writers are doomed to talk at cross-purposes, or at random; it takes a corps of influential critics to unite individual reactions into a common discussion.
For that reason, Earth observations, science and services, taken together, constitute a critical infrastructure every bit as vital to our well-being as the electrical grid, our communications networks, our sewage systems and our roads and bridges.
But administration officials said the Department of Homeland Security would designate certain privately run computer systems as part of a "critical infrastructure" over which the department would have enhanced authority.
"Just as highways were a critical infrastructure component of the last century, wireless Internet access must be a part of our infrastructure for the 21st century," Mr. Street said last month in a speech before the United States Conference of Mayors.
An electrical power grid is a critical infrastructure.
Indeed, a national critical infrastructure plan will be an economic boon akin to the shale gas bonanza that has shifted the global energy epicenter to America.
A major critical infrastructure is the energy sector, of which oil is an important component.
-- HBJ indicated Qatar,s interest in a bilateral critical infrastructure protection partnership.
Open image in new window Fig. 12 Proposed development architecture of a space critical infrastructure risk cadastre using new and existing tools and approaches.
We note that despite telecommunications being a key critical infrastructure sector, we did not consider there to be sufficient documentation of impacts or mitigation guidance to create a robust poster.
