One member had a broken backbone, rib and breastbone, while the rest suffered scratches and bruises.
"They are the backbone of the EU, " said the German Labour Minister, Ursula von der Leyen.
SUNY, she's offered, would provide the backbone staff to start efforts in the state's urban centers.
To argue this takes political backbone, which has been lacking in Washington and Brussels of late.
The Korean, South Asian and Chinese communities are a backbone of the small-business community.
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The connections to and from them form the backbone of mobile networks across Europe.
Then there were the companies that provided the internet's backbone, like MCI and WorldCom.
Its capacity to constantly reinvent itself makes it the backbone of transformational changes within societies.
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Given that this is the backbone of the shirt, particular attention is in order.
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Layers of concentration and some nice mineral backbone make it perfect with grilled meats.
In 1979 they became the backbone of the newly formed Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps.
As users proliferate, the servers that form the Internet's backbone will also come under more strain.
Wholesale telecommunications and Internet backbone services purchased by Internet service providers would be exempt from tax.
"Fixing the school system is a backbone of making this city livable, " he said.
With the legislative clock ticking, the Democrats are suffering for their lack of backbone.
Using the arm, the astronaut lifted the platform's fifth truss, or backbone, segment into place.
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And these Americans are the backbone of our economy, the backbone of our middle class.
So far this year, the amount of traffic across the Internet's backbone is up 49%.
What we are trying to say is that equality is the backbone of our country.
What I know for sure is that Social Security is the backbone of our country.
They effectively became the Net's on-ramps in 1995 when the feds closed their own backbone.
That owes to a relative bandwidth mismatch between the backbone and the last mile.
Although Enron made markets in it, fibre-optic backbone is not really a fungible commodity.
Long hours also became the backbone of her own success as a fashion designer.
Now consider the impact on such a backbone of downloading a typical piece of video.
Britain's Tony Blair has trotted the globe, trying to put backbone into the American-led coalition.
They are and will continue to be the backbone of the White House press operation.
But more is needed: many want an optical-fibre backbone to reach every corner of the country.
Celebrated as the "island of love" by smitten French explorers, Tahiti is the French territory's administrative and commercial backbone.
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