Sentence examples for been a backbone of from inspiring English sources

The Minuteman III missile has long been a backbone of the nation's strategic deterrent, or nuclear, forces.

You have only to think of Jonathan Miller's perennial mafioso Rigoletto and his almost equally popular 1930s Mikado, which have long been a backbone of the ENO rep.

Switching ripple filters (SRF) is one of the significant part of grid connected voltage source converters (VSC) that have been a backbone of the most of renewable energy systems for the last decade.

The new program will be modeled after the Epidemic Intelligence Service, which has been a backbone of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Dr. Jong Wook Lee, a South Korean who will become the W.H.O.'s director general on Monday, said in several interviews over the last few days.

Python has been a backbone of Dropbox since its early days as it allowed the startup to write code once but deploy it across platforms.

The magic, gag gift and costume shop on Baker Street has been a backbone of Costa Mesa festivities for decades.

But Mr. Pawlenty noted similarities too: both Minnesota and India broke away from Great Britain, both play forms of hockey, and rural life and farming are a backbone of each.

As Oprah Winfrey and Alex Trebek can attest, syndication is a backbone of local broadcasting: affiliates purchase the local rights to specific shows and sell ads alongside the content.

Traffic surveillance system capable of providing accurate real-time traffic measurements is a backbone of fully exploiting a variety of advanced traffic management systems.

The Natura 2000 (N2k) network of protected areas is a backbone of biodiversity conservation in Europe, with likely further relevance for the development of green infrastructure.

Palaszczuk told the ABC that while her government would "look at" lifting its renewable energy target through its focus on wind and solar farms, "coal is a backbone of our economy".