Sentence examples for backbone for much of from inspiring English sources

His theoretical work on a "Universal Machine" created the backbone for much of what we now take for granted in electronic computation.

King founded the cotton mill that would eventually be the economic backbone of Roswell for much of its early history.

One set of views he shares with Trump is disdain for international institutions, alliances and norms — the often-invisible backbone of much of U.S. foreign policy for the past 70 years.

"Carey," given a percussive backbone, lost much of its intimacy.

Too much of the latter meant they had no backbone; too much of the former meant they were mollycoddled.

They are icons of the American dream, and the backbone to much of the prosperity and freedom we enjoy.

Developer Tetsuya Mizuguchi furnished Dreamcast and PlayStation 2 with Rez with much pounding bass, which served as a backbone for the rest of the abstract sci-fi shooter.

She said that the backbone of the sewer system would be capable of serving the entire city of Falluja, but that the Iraqi government would be responsible for connecting much of that system to individual homes.

There had been little accumulation of industrial capital, the backbone of much rail investment elsewhere.

For many years blacks were the backbone of the business, supplying much of the cheap labor that made South Africa a mining powerhouse, but they were barred from ownership or management roles.

The term "personalized medicine" is frequently added to the discussions of how to improve health care, and a new breed of medical devices called companion diagnostics are much of the backbone for this new approach to personalized care.