Sentence examples for mainstays to from inspiring English sources

Farming and trapping were the original economic mainstays, to be followed in later years by lumbering, fishing, and mining.

As soon as the Ford Interceptor, a police car built on the Taurus frame, becomes available later this year, the N.Y.P.D. plans to field-test a few of them as the possible successor to the Crown Vic, as one of the mainstays to the fleet".

After all, this is the man responsible for shifting the boundaries of permissible images of male eroticism with Richard Gere's wardrobe in "American Gigolo," and for helping to define the prowess of grab-and-greed 1980s power-suit dressing for women — which, by extension, has become the uniform of choice for Hollywood honchos, Wall Street bigwigs and red-carpet mainstays to this day.

The Poppies, one of non-league's most successful clubs, have dwindled from Blue Square Bet Premier mainstays to Evostik Southern Premier basement boys.

"Yeezus" is sonically complex, a melange that includes everyone from West, RZA, No ID, Mike Dean and other hip-hop mainstays to Daft Punk and fellow Frenchmen Brodinski and Gesaffelstein to upstart party anthem gurus Lunice and Hudson Mohawke.

Some of the game's tracks became mainstays to the Final Fantasy series: the "Prelude", the arpeggio played on the title screen; the "Opening Theme", which is played when the party crosses the bridge early in the game and later referred to as the Final Fantasy theme; and the "Victory Fanfare", which is played after every victorious battle.

He was a mainstay to us, our children and all of his close friends.

The company's recent evolution from uptown mainstay to peripatetic organisation was similarly tumultuous.

Trust the Pink Floyd mainstay to attempt something ambitious with his shot at one-night-only event cinema.

Cutting a deal with M&S allows BA to maintain an upmarket air, but this is another conversion by an aviation mainstay to Ryanair's ways.

From midway barker in a local carnival to bumbling magician to hypnotist's subject to traveling roadshow mainstay to actor in a theater troupe specializing in melodrama, Lyle is there.