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The oil and natural gas sectors are the backbone of the Algerian economy, accounting for roughly 60% of budget revenues.
Will he have the backbone to speak out against the bill?
This unity of the physical universe with the physical atom, and with all things created-earth, animal, or crystal-is the physical backbone of Oriental metaphysics.
Some of them likewise serve as armour, or defense, to guard important parts; thus the skull is admirably contrived to defend the brain; and the spine or backbone is designed, not only to strengthen the body, but to shield that continuation of the brain, called the spinal marrow, from whence originate great numbers of nerves, which pass through convenient openings of this bone, and are distributed to various parts of the body.
The cavity in which the lungs are contained is called the thorax, or chest: and is bounded by the ribs, and backbone or spine, and separated from the abdomen by a muscular membrane, called the diaphragm.
" "Because, Lord Jocelyn"-Harry ran and leaned over the table with a sweet smile of determination on his face-"because I am going back to my own people for a while, and it may be that the trade of cabinet-making may prove a very backbone of strength to me among them--" "Harry-you would not-indeed, you could not go back to Bunker?
Now the backbone of history is chronology, and we cannot interpret our evidence satisfactorily unless we can place it in its true chronological setting.
In fact, the manufacture and export of beads have at all times formed the very backbone of the Venetian glass industry.
He's the backbone of our empire.
Americans imagine the striving, suffering Irishwomen and the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, working-class Irishmen to be the sort of people who founded, and now form the backbone of, our own country.
To lump these small companies, many of which are family-owned businesses with fewer than 500 employees, in with the artificial moniker of "big business" (itself a populist tool of the left) is a disservice to the men and women whose efforts form the backbone of one-quarter of our economy.
Example: Clinton must have bombed Iraq to avoid impeachment, because "how else to explain the sudden appearance of a backbone that has been invisible up to now?
The culprit here is the school bag which every student carries to the school crammed with books and they end up with various back-related problems, such as backaches or backbone injuries.
) This kind of cash can't replace the $1,000 donors who are the backbone of every campaign, but it's enough to matter in House and Senate races.
The subsequent "Leuchter Report" became the backbone of Zundel's defense (he lost anyway) and of the burgeoning revisionist movement led by David Irving.
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