Such reports, filed with Mr. Fox's agency and other regulatory agencies, are the backbones of efforts to track financial crimes.
DirecTV, a unit of Hughes Electronics, had transmitted a signal known as an electronic countermeasure, or ECM, also known as a "card kill," from its satellites, which blasted smart cards that were the backbone of piracy efforts over the past several years.
Furthermore, the entire Medicaid program, the backbone of states' efforts to provide treatment and services for opioid addiction treatment, would be further curtailed by per capita caps.
Working together with our partners and the Ministry of Health, we have been able to develop medical protocols, create comprehensive training materials, and collecting the baseline data that will serve as the backbone of our efforts going forward.
Networks of fixed-site air monitors form the backbone of current efforts to predict health effects of air pollution.
Research into social innovation shows that the answer lies partly in using an intermediary who can act as the backbone of the effort, co-ordinating stakeholders, pulling the strings of project management and, where necessary, arbitrating points of conflict.
MEXICO CITY — Garment factories in Haiti, the backbone of an effort to revive the country's earthquake-shattered economy, have seriously shortchanged workers of their wages to keep costs of their T-shirts and other export goods low, according to a report to be issued Wednesday by a labor rights group.
Their efforts have quickly become the backbone of a national effort to better understand what is washing up along thousands of miles of coastline.
Joplin, Missouri City Manager Mark Rohr, recipient of the Local Leadership Award, was the backbone of disaster response efforts in the wake of the 2011 Joplin tornado and put AmeriCorps NCCC members at the center of the recovery effort there.
They will provide the backbone of the security effort, even if the Afghan services appear in the forefront.
