Sentence examples for backbone of the state from inspiring English sources

"The aim of what is going on is to shake the backbone of the state, which is the armed forces".

On Saturday North Korea will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Korean Worker's Party, the backbone of the state.

The occasion is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Korean Workers' party, the backbone of the state.

The backbone of the state chapter had been a Vietnam mom, but she died last December at the age of 80, leaving Mrs. Young to keep things together.

The backbone of the state – indeed, of the whole continent – is the Rocky Mountains, which stretch some 2,700 miles from Alaska to Mexico.

"If the discipline were to be relaxed, the party would cease to function as the backbone of the state and lower levels could no longer be relied upon to follow the will of the centre".

Voting against critical funds necessary to ensure the survival of the financial services industry — the economic backbone of this state — is not good for the people of New York.

Wall Street is the backbone of the New York state economy, accounting for 13% of tax contributions.

The backbone of the Ferris State program is Coach Bob Daniels, a 20-year veteran who has won 333 games in his tenure with the Bulldogs.

Yet the remark also seemed profoundly out of touch with the undercurrent of unease that was building most clearly among the professionals who provide the intellectual and administrative backbone of the British state and wider society.

The question this article sets out to answer is: considered to be "the backbone" of the Swedish state's strategy for informative governance in healthcare, what kind of regulatory arrangement is the evidence-based National Guidelines?