Sentence examples for was a backbone from inspiring English sources

Just how much rum was exchanged for slaves remains a point of contention; many contemporary historians say the old claims that rum was a backbone of the slave trade have been overstated.

He talked, of course, about the danger of "extremists" trying to overthrow Assad, claiming they were also a danger to Lebanon, that Assad's Syria was a backbone of Hezbollah "and the resistance cannot stand with its arms folded while its back is broken".

The IRESβGEO vector [29] was a backbone for the hGFAPp-PDGFAL-IRESβGEO construct.

There was a backbone of highly conserved regions showing ≥ 98% average nucleotide identity that was interrupted by regions unique to each strain.

"This is a backbone," he wrote.

"It is a backbone to a lot of children and clients".

The network moves information at 10 gigabits per second and is designed to be a backbone for hundreds of networks, IntelliSpace officials said yesterday.

But Mr. Pawlenty noted similarities too: both Minnesota and India broke away from Great Britain, both play forms of hockey, and rural life and farming are a backbone of each.

As Oprah Winfrey and Alex Trebek can attest, syndication is a backbone of local broadcasting: affiliates purchase the local rights to specific shows and sell ads alongside the content.

You have only to think of Jonathan Miller's perennial mafioso Rigoletto and his almost equally popular 1930s Mikado, which have long been a backbone of the ENO rep.

This acquisition may signal a new willingness to be a backbone instead.