The temples formed the backbone of the economy.

The backbone of making investment decisions for global holders of capital.

The king also had a group of personal armsmen, known as housecarls, who formed the backbone of the royal forces.

This was a device that a nurse uses when they're doing a spinal procedure in hospital.

Although they lacked a true spine, they possessed notochords which allowed them to be more agile than their invertebrate counterparts.

These can form the backbone of our designs, with the details filled in as we go.

And then we focused on village girls that we recruited, and then they really are the backbone of the organization.

Caxias was now a wealthy planter who owned slaves and was very much a part of the landed aristocracy that formed the backbone of the Party of Order.

Working with Italian corporations, it developed the new AMX attack aircraft (known locally as A 1) which makes up the backbone of the FAB's attack force.

Shinoda collaborated with graffiti artist DELTA, graphic designer Frank Maddocks, and band mate Joe Hahn to prepare Reanimation 's artwork.

Jackson said his main desire was to make a film focused primarily on Frodo and the Ring, the backbone of the story.

Agriculture accounts for almost 41 percent of GDP, 80 percent of exports, and 80 percent of the labour force.

And for that, we use the neural network, which we based on that part of the nervous system that we have in our spine that controls walking in humans.

Both tanks were the backbone of the armoured units in their respective armies, both nations distributed these tanks to their allies who also used them as the mainstay of their own armoured formations, and both were upgraded extensively and fitted with more powerful guns.

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

The elevation of the prefecture generally increases from southwest to northeast, with mountains forming the backbone of the city, and the ocean comprising the front.

Even with large scale mechanisation, infantry remained the backbone of all forces, and throughout the war, most infantry were equipped similarly to World War I.

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

The signings from other clubs included Nuno Valente and Derlei from União de Leiria Paulo Ferreira from Vitória de Setúbal Pedro Emanuel from Boavista and Edgaras Jankauskas and Maniche, who both had been out of contract at Benfica.

As a fish nerd, I have to laugh, because you know they don't call us fish nerds for nothing we actually do get excited about finding a new dorsal spine in a guppy.

One day when I was only seven years old and fishing, I pulled a pinfish, they're called, with sharp dorsal spines, up too hard and fast, and I blinded myself in one eye.

One bullet hit him in the spine.

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.

The Apennine Mountains form the peninsula's backbone and the Alps form most of its northern boundary, where Italy's highest point is located on Mont Blanc (4,810 m 15,782 ft).

I have a pimple from eating too much chocolate.

The backbone of the island is the Barisan Mountain chain, with the active volcano Mount Kerinci as the highest point at 3,805 m (12,467 ft), located at about the midpoint of the range.

Chill up my spine.

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.

She believed that all well drawn characters have a spine.

My spine curves spiral.

She had a spina bifida defect, a spinal cord abnormality.

She sleeps on her back.

Belugas are amongst the most vocal cetaceans.

Moreover, white collar managers and employees the brainpower that keeps the intricate global corporate machinery whirring, and once the backbone of the middle class are no longer in such high demand.

Female residents characteristically have rounded dorsal fin tips that terminate in a sharp corner.

Experts identified the bones as those of a beluga.

Narwhals do not have a dorsal fin, possibly an evolutionary adaptation to swimming easily under ice.

This species has a slender, fusiform body with a narrow, pointed head.

Indeed, just two days after the Vikrant s launch, explosions at the naval dockyard in Mumbai sank INS Sindhurakshak one of the ten Kilo class submarines that form the backbone of India s aging conventional submarine fleet killing 18 crew members.

Italy is the world's sixth largest manufacturing country, characterised by a smaller number of global multinational corporations than other economies of comparable size and a large number of dynamic small and medium sized enterprises, notoriously clustered in several industrial districts, which are the backbone of the Italian industry.

It has a curved, prominent dorsal fin that ranges in height from (usually ) and averages about , lying about three quarters of the way along the back.

The dorsal fin extension was removed.

The backbone of the single money market of the euro area is the system for payment transfers known as TARGET ( which stands for Trans European Automated Real time Gross settlement Express Transfer system ) .

You'd be activating the dorsal stream if you did that.

Just remember that single acne spot that crippled you for several days.