Sentences with phrase «central backbone»

Polymers are strings of molecules with a central backbone and may contain side chains called «pendant groups» that dangle from the central structure.

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And those commitments in turn inspired the formation of «Helsinki monitoring groups,» which were to become the backbone of the human rights resistance in Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s: groups that were essential to the nonviolent collapse of communism in the Revolution of 1989 and the New Russian Revolution of 1991.

It has become the primary export and backbone for African countries like Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia, as well as many Central American countries.

Before the game, we knew that United lacked: (a) an established central midfielder capable of moving the ball both intelligently and imaginatively (back in your box, Carrick fan, it's been a good long while); (b) a source of backbone, spine, gumption, heart, garra, moral courage, or whatever; (c) a functioning Patrice Evra; (d) a settled defence.

At any rate Mustafi and Holding are the future backbone of the Arsenal central defence.

Here was the real deal, a ball playing central defender who in time would certainly form the backbone of AS Roma's future.

They saw that online organizing has become as central to modern political campaigning as direct mail, field organizing, advertising and media relations, and that the the internet can in fact become the backbone of campaign functions from fundraising to turning out voters on election day.

My constituency has as its backbone the M74 corridor linking central Scotland with the north of England.

Some were interested in «islanding,» using it as the backbone for an alternate power grid that could sustain itself with emergency generators and large amounts of solar and wind energy if and when the central power grid went down.

Computers are linear, moving data back and forth between memory chips and a central processor over a high - speed backbone.

Beginning in the 1990s, the program exported that model to cultivate exciting new generations of filmmakers in specific countries, starting with Mexico and Brazil, which supported the early feature films of Alfonso Cuaron (Love in the Time of Hysteria), Guillermo Del Toro (The Devil's Backbone), Walter Salles (Central Station), and Braulio Mantovani (City Of God).

E3 Alliance worked with the Central Texas After - school Network and key investors to launch Learn All the Time, a new «backbone» to strategically build up a thriving ecosystem of out of school and summer learning programming.

The twin motors are supplied with current by either a 20 kw / h battery pack (which is incorporated into the central «backbone» of the car) or by a 2.0 - litre turbocharged petrol engine turning a DC generator.

Thirty miles off the coast of Central America, a long, jungle - covered ridge rises out of the Caribbean Sea and forms the backbone of Roatán, the largest and most visited of the Bay Islands of Honduras.

The show finds its backbone in the 360 - degree view from the central atrium where the viewer can glimpse a sampling of works by different artists, otherwise all regrettably sequestered in their own niches and corridors: Frankenthaler's Jacob's Ladder (1957) up front, Mary Abbott's All Green (1954) to the left, Grace Hartigan's Interior, «The Creeks» (1957) to the right, and ahead, Joan Mitchell's Hudson River Day Line (1955) and Krasner's behemoth The Seasons (1957) loom large.

During her travels to places such as Mexico, India, China, South Africa and Central Asia, McVeigh has amassed a huge number of found objects, each of which holds a small piece of history and fills her studio to serve as a backbone to the work she creates.

«This exclusionary principle ended up forming the backbone of the conservation movement and led to its central irony: The wild had to be kept as free of people as possible — until the right kind of white man needed to go hunting.»

Those existing rail systems would tie into the high speed rail backbone through the Central Valley.

«The Orlando Regional REALTOR ® Foundation is committed to creating homeownership opportunities for veterans, in addition to the first responders, educators, and others who form the backbone of the Central Florida workforce,» says Orlando REALTOR ® and Orlando Regional REALTOR ® Foundation Chairman Kathleen Gallagher McIver, RE / MAX Central Realty.