Backbone

He is an American to the backbone.

But they are the backbone of our country.

On April 30, 1995, the NSFNET Backbone Service had been successfully transitioned to a new architecture and the NSFNET backbone was decommissioned.

Sparking empathy had become the backbone of Self Evident Truths.

Petroleum, petrochemicals and natural gas continue to be the backbone of the economy.

Decent would be Palestinian businessmen (the potential backbone of a middle class) are destroyed.

Equality and social cohesion form the backbone of liberty, justice, and security for European cities.

Its overall aim was to make the backbone of Europe s heavy engineering sector more competitive internationally.

The most important lesson is that Islamic organizations can provide the backbone of a tolerant civil society.

In cyberspace, the same practice, often dismissed as trolling, remains the backbone of Wikipedia s quality control.

And the US dollar reserve currency system the backbone of the current global financial system is fraying.

In cyberspace, the same practice, often dismissed as trolling, remains the backbone of Wikipedia s quality control.

Long the backbone of the Palestinian national movement, Fatah has been the dominant faction in the PLO.

Before the Peoples Partnership got into power Jack was the moral and financial backbone of the party.

She wrote a series of three draft manuscripts, two of which included a double helical DNA backbone.

These threats make it certain that lies are printed and broadcast lies that are the backbone of Kuchma's regime.

Now with Medvedev showing what appears to be a backbone, the presidential election campaign is officially on the way.

Klaus sees political parties as the backbone of any democratic system and sees little place for civil society in politics.

Like termites, India's Hindu fascists have weakened the foundations of our constitution, parliament, and the courts the backbone of every democracy.

Public space networks of greenways, parks, plazas, exclusively pedestrian avenues, and streets could be the backbone of the new Third World city.

And what about the Alawites (the backbone of Assad s regime), who could face a terrible destiny, regardless of whether the country splits up?

Indeed, the power struggle that will ensue in the post Arafat era will ultimately center on Al Fatah, the backbone of the PLO.

Although the resulting outflow of gold caused monetary debasement in the Roman Empire, Indo Roman trade remained the backbone of the global economy.

Part of the Saudi plan today is to use Pakistanis as the backbone for a new Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) joint military force.

These parents repeatedly told them that they raised their sons to become the backbone of their families, to be true Muslims, and good citizens.

The shutdown of all reactors across Japan was devastating for many local host communities where nuclear power plants are the backbone of the economy.

In the 1980 s, its principal adversaries were the urban intelligentsia, who constituted the backbone of the pro democracy movement that culminated in Tiananmen Square.

This is because these analogues lack the hydroxyl groups, which, along with phosphorus atoms, link together to form the strong backbone of the DNA molecule.

Nonetheless, the Palestinian public is pleased for now with a leadership that has found the backbone to stand up to pressure from Israel and the US.

One can so well understand that man, a kind, first rate fellow, but an official to his very backbone, who does not know what he is doing.

Now, at this phase, the program actually has some understanding of the topology of this creature. It kind of knows where the backbone is, where the spine, the limbs are.

The automakers are also the backbone of American manufacturing, driving advances in manufacturing technology that will be needed if America is to be a world leader in the coming green transportation revolution.

The automakers are also the backbone of American manufacturing, driving advances in manufacturing technology that will be needed if America is to be a world leader in the coming green transportation revolution.

This would not be achieved, however, through an inevitably imperfect sanctions regime, or by America s resort to Cold War logic aimed at breaking Iran s backbone by drawing it into a ruinous arms race.

And there were three old ladies who lived in that's her self built house behind her and they've lived there for 30 or 40 years, and they are the backbone of the community there.

A free press papers, magazines, radio, TV, blogs is the backbone of any true democracy . Sasa Vucinic, a journalist from Belgrade, talks about his new fund, which supports media by selling free press bonds.

So the first step in biological evolution, the evolution of DNA actually it was RNA came first took billions of years, but then evolution used that information processing backbone to bring on the next stage.

Although she at first insisted vehemently that her data did not force one to conclude that DNA has a helical structure, in the drafts she submitted in 1953 she argues for a double helical DNA backbone.

And the idea is that you take the three dimensional structure of a protein in this case it's the crambin protein you take the backbone so no cross linking, no environmental interactions and you break that down into a series of components.

The Davignon Plan imposed Europe wide production and price controls, monitored and coordinated national governments state aids, organized the closures of outdated plants, encouraged mergers, and awarded EU funding to retraining schemes for redundant steel workers. Its overall aim was to make the backbone of Europe s heavy engineering sector more competitive internationally.

Local authorities were supplied with adequate funding and advice independent chambers of commerce became the backbone of a local commercial middle class, which is interested in keeping the region peaceful, even absent an overall agreement local police were trained (in Jordan), and now function effectively as police forces, not armed militias and business relations with adjacent Israeli regions have been renewed.