"a strong frame" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a literal frame, such as a wooden frame of a house, or it can be used figuratively to describe a sound structure or a dependable foundation. For example, "The company's success was built on a strong frame of leadership and strong values."
Basically, you want a strong frame on which to hang a lot of meat.
Only someone with a strong frame could possibly resist the near-universal pull of public and governmental opinion.
At-home portraits of residents by Corine Vermeulen show Mies's architecture as a strong frame for personal expression.
Calenders are made in many different forms and employ from 2 to 12 heavy rollers, usually mounted vertically in a series on a strong frame.
But most of all they crave precise tailoring on jewel-tone jackets that create a strong frame for color-block outfits.
Acceptance of Tom Peters' urgings — " 'Don't think, do' is the phrase I favor"15 — could lead to the centrifugal explosion of the job, as it flies off in all directions, free of a strong frame anchoring it at the core.
It's no easy clearance, but this is looking like a strong frame-winning opportunity.
(One strip, drawn when Mr. Schulz's first marriage was breaking up and his wife, suspicious of an affair, was questioning his phone bills, shows Charlie Brown yelling at a lovesick Snoopy: "And stop making those long-distance phone calls!") Looked at simply as a narrative problem, it is not hard to see why any biographer would want a strong framing device in trying to tell the story of Mr. Schulz.
The crane itself works well, though with some more time we could build one with a stronger frame and more aesthetics.
Yet for all its beautiful moments — as with much of the work that preceded it — "The New Ecstatic" needed a stronger frame.
He displayed a stronger frame and a more polished jump shot — the Americans sagged off him about eight feet at the 2008 Olympics — to complement his ethereal feel for passing.
