Sentence examples for financial backbone from inspiring English sources

Database and applications software remains Oracle's financial backbone.

The financial backbone of the Postal Service had always been the first-class letter.

A core group of business donors -- oil, tobacco, guns, real estate and software -- now form the financial backbone of the modern Republican Party.

But diamonds serve as the financial backbone for jewelers nationwide, and while some have tried to match Internet prices, many still refuse to compete on that basis.

Retail advertising, the financial backbone of the industry, is down, in part because many department stores have fallen on hard times.

In the last year, government initiatives to curb rising health care costs drastically altered the financial backbone of the state's health care industry.

I would add the fact that labor unions are the financial and organizational backbone of the Democratic Party.

"A company that treated its manufacturing workforce with dignity is now one where workers are viewed as expendable and not as highly skilled workers that constitute the financial and spiritual backbone of the company.

"Financials were the backbone in 2009".

If Nasdaq was Mr. Levitt's incoming struggle, his fight with the accounting profession over the integrity of audited financial statements -- the backbone of investment decisions -- was his outgoing battle.

DUEDIL Damian Kimmelman United Kingdom Their pitch: The data backbone of financial services.