The phrase "powerful backbone" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the support structure that allows something to operate, such as a strong economic policy providing a powerful backbone for an organization. For example, "We understand the importance of having a strong, powerful backbone to support our operations."
Mr Snowden said he believed there had been more than 61,000 NSA global hacking operations which targeted powerful "network backbones".
Iran's national shipping company is specifically targeted, as are entities controlled by the powerful Revolutionary Guards, the backbone of the Islamic regime.
This iconic oil, in reality a group portrait of members of the guild of surgeon, signaled young Rembrandt's acceptance by the city's powerful guilds and merchants — the backbone of the Dutch Republic.
Our results confirm the fact that the number of gateways can be dramatically reduced by using more powerful mesh routers in the backbone; for example, 6 gateways with mesh router transmitting at 25 Mbps can achieve much better throughput performance than 15 gateways with mesh router transmitting at 10 Mbps.
In particular, King, who had close ties to the United Auto Workers -- once the backbone of a powerful labor movement that helped build the postwar middle class -- would be calling on the president and Congress to help revitalize Detroit with loans and grants to create jobs, restore public services and create a smaller but more humane city.
Popularising traditional music in the 1950s and 60s went against the grain of international trends, but his advocacy, through the powerful medium of radio, was the backbone of its revival.
Backbone circularization is a powerful approach for enhancing the structural stability of polypeptides.
A powerful strategy to photocleave the protein backbone at a single site, developed over nearly two decades, is described here.
Powerful adversaries, controlling routers located on backbone links have access to all traffic, and recent revelations [10] show that there is a practice of injecting poisoned DNS responses into legitimate flows to redirect clients to incorrect servers, e.g., for censorship.
The reagents are powerful as they react with the backbone at every base, allowing rapid acquisition of comprehensive structural information.
