Sentence examples for mainstays- from inspiring English sources

Queensland may have Daly Cherry-Evans ready to step into the boots of Cooper Cronk, but there are no like-for-like replacements for Smith, Johnathan Thurston, Billy Slater and Greg Inglis, the mainstays of Queensland's unprecedented success.

One of the mainstays of the women's monthly magazine market, IPC's Marie Claire, has been hit with double digit year on year and period on period decline in a struggling sector.

Yet, equally, let's not disregard that there is also Victor Valdés, one of the mainstays of Pep Guardiola's great Barcelona sides, in reserve at Old Trafford.

"Sam [Stosur] has proven herself and when we go to the younger kids, Barty has proven she can take it to the best in the world, Kyrgios and [Thanasi] Kokkinakis have proven they can do it, [Marinko] Matosevic and the mainstays of the Davis Cup team have all proven they can do it over the past year".

Meanwhile, engineering mainstays such as steel, aluminium and titanium all of which consume large quantities of energy during their manufacture could be replaced by superstrong nanocomposites and carbon nanotubes.Deploying nanotechnology on such a scale, however, would be akin to putting a man on the moon.

The British Museum's Egyptian mummies and the Amazonian tsantsas (shrunken heads) in Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum are mainstays of their collections.

Gonçalo Mabunda is one of several who use decommissioned weapons to make "gun throne" sculptures (another is Cristovao Canhavato also known as Kester whose work is one of the mainstays of the African collection at the British Museum).Traditional artistic materials like paints and pencils are likely to be used for graphic ends.

On average, its economies have expanded by 2.5% a year from 1980-2003 a little bit more than those of Latin America but less than the average for small island states, according to the IMF.Two of the region's mainstays, tourism and offshore finance, face growing competition.

The leaders of Golkar and PDI-P, the mainstays of the Nationhood Coalition, do not have any ideological quarrels with the president.

The disease quickly spread to other parts of the country, and also to Belgium.Gelderse Vallei used to be home to 10m poultry, one of the mainstays of the Dutch intensive chicken and egg industry.

Perhaps they were doing a good job in setting up an immune response only to have the tumours promptly dampen it.If combining the different forms of immunotherapy with each other offers promise, so does combining them with the mainstays of cancer treatment an area in which there is now a lot of research.