Sentences with phrase «cultural backbone»

Nanjing has been the cultural backbone of the country for a long time.

While it is right that government sets out its priorities for arts funding - namely, that we want to protect the cultural backbone through ensuring every possible penny is spent on activity that produces artistic content - we are not interfering in individual funding decisions.

First it was money from tourism, then Russian money, etc. that took us into prosperity without having the cultural backbone to handle it,» says Alexandros Charalambides, an Imperial College Ph.D. and Cyprus University of Technology lecturer, explaining the cultural hurdles for entrepreneurs.

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More than introducing new products or marketing strategies, Facebook wants to cement its position as the social backbone of the web — and entrench itself as more cultural phenomenon than corporation.

Textiles formed the backbone for a huge cultural expansion of the city in the 60s.

Another cultural contribution of blaxploitation movies was its music - a brand of funk, jazz and soul that provided much of the backbone for the narratives and became the genre's calling card.

Whether you're scouting hotels and restaurants for a guidebook, blogging about your cultural faux pas on your website or selling a travel narrative to a national newspaper, the backbone of every great travel tale is solid base of on - location research...

As such, it forms the backbone of that area's economy and its cultural life.