The weak rule of his semiblind father had allowed usurpation by the amīrs, or chiefs, of the Turkmen tribes, who had brought the Ṣafavid to power and still constituted the backbone of Ṣafavid military strength.
The primary health unit was a key health facility that was visited, since it constituted the backbone of public health infrastructure in Northern Sudan and provided an obvious site where UNICEF had inputs in the primary health system.
Solar radiation distribution, air exchange by ventilation, and crop transpiration constituted the backbones of the model.
Such tribal groups are among the most marginalized citizens in Indian society and constitute the backbone of the Maoist insurgency that has kindled across the eastern middle of the country.
The importance of this problem stems from the fact that it constitutes the backbone of many network design problems having applications in several areas including telecommunication, energy, and distribution planning.
The physical or engineering assets within modern industries have consistently been considered as the core elements of significant value that constitute the backbone for success and overall growth.
All of the opening source evidence since the last round of counter-revolutionary street protests suggests that there has been no particular strengthening of the urban and merchant forces who constitute the backbone of "reform" in Iran.
Mr. Kim, 74, is a man whose life has been so packed with high drama that its details could easily constitute the backbone of two or three life stories, with plenty of intriguing loose ends left over.
Thus, mitochondrial genes have been sequenced for most of the available species within our dataset, and mitochondrial markers like CYTB (with 1152 sequenced taxa; Table 2) constitute the backbone of our phylogenetic inference.
While constituting the backbone of episodic memory theory, evidence for a role of hippocampal neurons in coordinating cortical reinstatement during associative memory retrieval has been lacking.
