Sentence examples for gave a backbone from inspiring English sources

The initial impetus for the British VFX industry, he says, came from the Harry Potter series, which began filming in 2000 at Leavesden studios in Hertfordshire, and supplied "a good steady stream of work that could build upon itself – similar work each time – and that gave a backbone around which to build an industry".

Janet Hopf actually elevates the old miser in her interesting "God Bless You, Mister Scrooge!," in which the fellow who in Dickens is so easily manipulated by those ghosts is given a backbone.

The family of 30 calculated conformers has a backbone rmsd of 0.50 ± 0.07 Å. Superimposition of the representative structure of the binary complex onto that of the lc DHFR.TMP.NADPH ternary complex gives a backbone rmsd of 1.46 ± 0.13 Å.

Superimposition of all crystals gave a mean backbone RMSD (root mean-square distance) of ca. 0.5 Å (all-atom RMSD ca. 1.5 Å).

Across all targets, MEDELLER gave an average backbone root mean square deviation (RMSD) of 2.62 Å versus 3.16 Å for Modeller.

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

— SEVENTY-FIVE years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act to give a policy backbone to his belief that goods that were not produced under "rudimentary standards of decency" should not be "allowed to pollute the channels of interstate trade".

In the frame of a baseline scenario, which main advantage is to give a clear backbone to the various experts analyses, the final convergence of the two ways to process the results of the matrix (expertise approach and clustering approach), strengthened the robustness of results.

This gives it a backbone of flavor.

The band changed between its first and second incarnations, when Mr. Crutchfield was replaced by the bassist Tim Wright, who started to ground the flighty enterprise and give it a backbone.

Jen Yamato of Movies.com criticized Disney for "failing to give Rapunzel a backbone and retreading ground so familiar you can fall asleep for ten minutes and still know exactly what happened".