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Meanings of mainstay in English
Portuguese
ponto fulcral Catalan
àncora Synonyms
Examples for "anchor"
Examples for "anchor"
1
The ships dropped anchor; the boats were lowered; the people went ashore.
2
EU membership is widely seen as an anchor for the reform process.
3
The anchor plunged into the water of the harbour; the shrieking ceased.
4
After numerous storms, the sea is still there, anchor Kang Hui said.
5
Currently we have an 'anchor' tenant in the form of, Emirates Airlines.
1
Dairy products remained the backbone of exports, and fruit exports were strong.
2
They are the backbone of all drama; and I love drama inordinately.
3
THERE was no doubt that mothers were the backbone of Irish society.
4
Unlike in other countries, reserve forces are the backbone of Israel's military.
5
The President and I cannot prevent certain politicians from losing their backbone.
1
I think the text might tell us how to open the keystone.
2
Will car-sharing become a keystone of the sharing economy in urban areas?
3
Socialized medicine is the keystone to the arch of the socialist state.
4
This section of the country is the keystone of the Southern arch.
5
Robert Langdon was in possession of the keystone, and he needed help.
1
For now, German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains the linchpin of the continent.
2
He'd seen Invaders from Mars, too; it was a linchpin between us.
3
Albertine was the band's linchpin and was always good with the verbals.
4
Actively managed funds have been the linchpin of the Johnson family's fortune.
5
Every step forward is a further unraveling, each linchpin a loose wire.
1
Social workers and GPs can be an important lynchpin of whole-system reform.
2
Take their approach to steamed milk, the lynchpin of any good latte.
3
It was a lynchpin for Syndic defenses in that region of space.
4
It means Brian Cody rates him as the lynchpin of this Kilkenny team.
5
To describe her as the lynchpin of the community would be an understatement.
Usage of mainstay in English
1
Of most concern is damage to agriculture, the mainstay of the economy.
2
However, the country's mainstay copper industry was mostly unharmed by the tremor.
3
Volunteers are the mainstay of many activities available to the disability sector.
4
Results: En bloc resection remains the mainstay of therapy with curative intent.
5
Auto deals, the mainstay of the ABS market, attracted the most interest.
6
Replacing a billion dollar industry that's been a medical mainstay since 1940?
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Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for stage I and II thymoma.
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Preservation of visual function throughout treatment is the mainstay of therapeutic planning.
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They are the comfortable and well-educated mainstay of our modern Democratic party.
10
He was a mainstay on Boxing News, which has just turned 100.
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It was he who had always been the mainstay, the dependable one.
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The newspaper was a mainstay of the artistic movement known as futurism.
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Visit Website Single-length slings should be the mainstay of your sling collection.
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While Dürer lived he was the mainstay of his family-fatherand brothers.
15
Pemmican, though little used nowadays, was formerly the mainstay of the voyageurs.
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Surgical resection is the mainstay of treatment because adjuvant therapy is unproven.
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