Sentences with phrase «national backbone»

And there is now reason to believe that a national backbone could be effectively controlled.

The DOE's wind report put the price tag for a national backbone at $ 60 billion — a staggering sum, at least until various federal bailouts started to come along last autumn after the stock market plummeted.

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While the Obama campaign's attacks have not moved the national polls, Rove writes, Romney's weak and seemingly unprepared response has discouraged conservative activists, raising concerns that the former Massachusetts governor doesn't have the backbone to go up against the Obama machine.

8:30 - 9:30 State - owned Enterprise in China: Progress and Prospects China's state - owned enterprises (SOEs) have long been the backbone of the national economy.

Sierra Leone has built a blockchain partnership that will form the backbone of a new national «Smart Country» initiative.

The national and international division of labor are part of the backbone of traditional economics.

Throughout its transition from a small stand, to a regional producer and now a national brand, the pit - smoked flavor of traditional barbeque has always been the backbone of Sadler's Smokehouse's products.

By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.

Not a national centre but one designed to produce players for a club, in turn providing the backbone of the national side.

The trio formed the backbone of Villanova's 2016 national champion.

The bond these two share will provide the backbone for a team with a legitimate chance at winning Bishop O'Dowd's first boys basketball championship since 1981 — while possibly adding a mythical national title in the process.

The Santa Clara Aquamaids and Walnut Creek Aquanuts not only have combined for 27 national team championships, but regularly form the backbone of U.S. National and Olympinational team championships, but regularly form the backbone of U.S. National and OlympiNational and Olympic teams.

Baxter's path is the right one and there are enough very promising youngsters out there who could become the backbone of the national side in the next four years.

HS2 is a key part of this, and will be the backbone of our national rail network.»

There is a feeling that we may not see their like again, that we are doomed to a period in which politicians without character or backbone inundate our national debate, ever more robotic and disconnected from their principles with each passing generation.

I have long considered the national Republican Party to be a party of no conscience and the national Democratic Party to be a party of no backbone.

De Blasio responded to Democrats» brutal losses last Tuesday in a Huffington Post opinion piece — followed by a radio interview and a national TV appearance — that encouraged Democrats to find their progressive «backbone» and talk more about income inequality.

Rep. Steve Stivers, Ohio Stivers is a low - profile contender, but numerous Republicans who work closely with the committee portray his efforts as national finance chairman as the NRCC's backbone.

The group's National Coordinator, Usman Ibrahim, said Shittu's choice marked the end of its rigorous search for a mentor, backbone, leader and father who believes in the group's course and principal ideology.

[55] More specifically, he stated, «Heavy industry with the machine - building industry as its backbone is the pillar of an independent national economy».

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced yesterday that it has awarded grants totaling $ 12.3 million to help universities hook up to the very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS).

College communities make sense as test beds for gigabit networks because they include highly concentrated population of heavy Internet users as well as institutions already connected to Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR) and other high - speed Internet backbones, says Gig.U Program Director Elise Kohn, a former policy advisor in the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau.

The result — part of the DOE's exploration of how to get 20 percent of U.S. electricity from wind by 2030 — was a plan for a national, high - voltage transmission backbone.

On October 28, NASA launched the National Polar - orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project, a prototype of the new generation of satellites, Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS), that will be the backbone of U.S. space - based weather and climate observations.

If the National Science Foundation's new high - speed backbone, called vBNS, represents the hardware of the new «metacomputer,» Globus is the operating system, explains Foster, who developed it with computer scientist Carl Kesselman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

To contribute to the advancement of volunteerism to meet world - class standards by creating positive change, conducive platforms for volunteerism, strengthening and promoting volunteerism as the strongest backbone for meaningful community, national, continental and international development.

Created with support from the National Education Association (NEA), who provided a generous grant award for their development, the standards will form the backbone for secondary - based «grow your own» efforts across the country.

The backbone of Louisiana A + Schools is our team of Fellows, a cohort of over 60 master educators including National Board Certified Teachers, Arts Specialists, Professional Teaching Artists, School Principals, Arts Organization Administrators, and School District Supervisors.

Created with support from the National Education Association (NEA), who provided a generous grant award for their development, the standards will form the backbone for secondary - based «grow your own» efforts -LSB-...]

Each year since 1985, the volunteer workers who make up the backbone of the Club Racing program have been recognized at the National Championship event.

Because Col. Potter is a National organization and does not have a brick and mortar facility, a foster home is the backbone of our organization.

Although it is clear that Florida legislators have no backbone when it comes to truly helping Florida's racing greyhounds, National Greyhound Adoption Program did it's very best to support these legislative initiatives.

This tour will travel into the Flinders Ranges National Park through the magnificent Bunyeroo and Brachina Gorges featuring a stop at the renowned Razorback Lookout and travelling down the Backbone of the Flinders Ranges.

Tour Highlights... This tour will travel into the Flinders Ranges National Park through the magnificent Bunyeroo and Brachina Gorges featuring a stop at the renowned Razorback Lookout and traveling down the backbone of the Flinders Ranges.

Another local favourite is the hike along the rugged, vista - laden Backbone Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

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...

They were the backbone of the first national artistic movement in Canada.

In 1954, the Lowe was designated the only Florida recipient in a national distribution of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation collection, and, in 1961, constructed a 2,100 square foot gallery to house the 41 Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures that are the backbone of its Western collection.

His National Gallery counterpart, board chairman John Wilmerding told The Times, «The hope is that our name, our programming, our expertise gives [MOCA] a sense of backbone and stability.»

Revolution Wind would be paired with a first - of - its - kind offshore transmission backbone developed in partnership with National Grid Ventures.

As detailed by a 2014 report by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), manufacturing jobs in the US are now in the bottom half of all jobs in terms of pay, despite significant public subsidies and bailouts and widespread assumptions among politicians and the public that manufacturing is the backbone of the middle class.

Countries have vowed to cap warming to 2C on pre-industrial levels by 2100, with national pledges forming the backbone of a climate deal to be signed in Paris in December.

---- 2010b, «Chapter 5 - NEMLink: a Pre-feasibility Study into High Capacity Backbone», in 2010 National Transmission Network Development Plan.

---- 2011b, «Chapter 6 - NEMLink: Further study results on a high - capacity backbone», in 2011 National Transmission Network Development Plan.

All the legal institutions need to take care of and pay detailed attention to our youth, specifically those in the legal field, because young people are the backbone of the future, and the issue of interest by educating them and training them is one of the first national tasks to be worked on and improved in the coming period.

The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data Systems (NCANDS) glossary in Child Maltreatment 2007 provides the backbone to the following categories of traumatic stress provided by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (Core Clinical Characteristics form dated 9/2007): [To see the definition, click on the category.]

In June, as we observe National Homeownership Month, let's celebrate the fact that the housing industry continues to be the backbone of our country's economy.