Sentence examples for primary source of strength from inspiring English sources

The salaried Janissary corps remained the primary source of strength of the devşirme class, whereas the sipahis and the timar system remained the bases of power of the Turkish notables.

After decades in which jihadists were defeated by security services in their home countries, Osama bin Laden and his followers decided that they would attack the "far enemy," the United States, which they believe is the primary source of strength for the secularist regimes in the Arab world.

In settings where patients are especially vulnerable and unable to look after themselves (eg, paediatrics and care of the elderly) families are often the patients' primary source of strength and support, thus their role in ensuring safety takes on a particularly important role.

It is not surprising that genes encoding collagen, the most abundant family of proteins in mammals and primary source of strength and structure in the ECM, represent five of the top ten highest expressed genes (fig. 3 A) (Alberts et al. 2008).

It is the spine... [the] main source of strength".

Ironically bipartisan trade policy created our China problem in the first place and this latest love fest demonstrates a shocking lack of appreciation for a primary source of American military strength, productive capacity.

Everything will be on the table — spending cuts, tax reform and increases, a framework for restructuring the debts of Americans whose homes are under water and the investments we need to renew the primary sources of our strength — infrastructure, education and scientific research.

Conversely, the primary source of noise photons at 1550 nm is hydroxyl airglow, the strength of which is strongly dependent on ambient temperature.

In analyzing every play of the season according to down and distance, game situation and opponent strength, Football Outsiders identified the Jets' running game as a primary source of improvement over those four games, going from poor to above average.

You go where you can draw on your strengths to gain comparative advantage the organizing principle of Plato's Republic and the primary source of economic growth in Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.

Hip-hop is a primary source of this new music.