The financial system in Cameroon which is still in its infancy operates with very limited amount of financial instruments and constitutes mostly of banks as the main arm, with an underdeveloped financial market.
Then, too, Malta's importance in British eyes fluctuated: when, as in the late 1950s, nuclear deterrence was seen as the main arm of defence, the island's significance was negligible.
By the end of the 1950s, the idea of concessional loans to poorer countries was accepted and became the basis for IDA, the International Development Association, established in 1960 and still serving today as the World Bank's main arm and multibillion-dollar mechanism for concessional lending to developing countries.
Action: from Russia, which, as Syria's main arms supplier, is defending its strategic handhold in the Middle East by opposing or blocking U.N. reports on its ally's nuclear program and arms deals with Iran, and through a probable veto of a condemnation of Syria if it comes up in the Security Council.
Obstetricians and midwives are considered as the two main arms of the delivery process but unfortunately they do not cooperate ideally with each other.
This TEM image reveals that most of the nanowires are straight, and the diameter along the growth direction is uniform, with a mean diameter of 43(1) nm for the main arms (marked as S1) and 55(2) nm for the branches (marked as S2).
Its main arm was always ZANLA, without which independence would not have come as early as it did.
