Word Finder - mainstay

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A chief support.

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Agriculture is the mainstay of this country’s economy.

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Someone or something that can be depended on to make a regular contribution.

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A stabilising rope from the top of the mainmast to the bottom of the foremast.

Fishing is the occupation of the men, and the real mainstay of the inhabitants.

The mainstay of the agriculture of the department is the raising of live-stock, especially of cattle of the Aubrac breed, for which Laguiole is an important market.

In the latter year the imports amounted to £467,000, and the exports to £451,000; coffee, the mainstay of Yemen trade, shows a serious decline from £302,000 in 1902 to £229,000 in 1904; this is attributable partly to the great increase of production in other countries, but mainly to the insecurity of the trade routes and the exorbitant transit dues levied by the Turkish administration.

The deserters from Cicala's army, distributed in armed bands throughout Asia Minor, had become centres round which all the elements of discontent gathered, and formed the mainstay of the Jellali sectaries who, at this time, rose in insurrection and ravaged Anatolia.

He was quite aware that the industrial wealth of the great Flemish communes was financially the mainstay of his power, but their very prosperity made them the chief obstacle to his schemes of unifying into a solid dominion the loose aggregate of states over which he was the ruler.

His friend and instructor, Bernard of Clairvaux, the most influential ecclesiastic of the time, remonstrated against his election on account of his "innocence and simplicity," but Bernard soon acquiesced and continued to be the mainstay of the papacy throughout Eugenius's pontificate.

As the land tax forms the mainstay of the imperial revenue, so the ryot or cultivator constitutes the unit of the social system.

The German empire and the Italian kingdom had been built up out of the ruins of immemorial Habsburg ambitions; yet he refused to be drawn into an alliance with France in 1869 and 1870, and became the mainstay of the Triple Alliance of Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy.

Mining was the economic mainstay of Cornwall in the 19th century.

The bamboo shoot, a mainstay in Asian cooking, also plays a reoccurring role in the east as well.

Occlusion of the normal eye with an adhesive patch is the mainstay of treatment in all forms of unilateral amblyopia.

Nelson's Navy The Royal Navy was the mainstay of the British Empire for 300 years, and Britain's only bulwark against invasion.

The mainstay of treating Parkinson's disease is to replace dopamine in the brain.

Appropriate antibiotic therapy, often intravenous at first, is the mainstay of treatment and pain relief is also important.

Unsurprisingly given their proximity to livestock, cheese proved a mainstay in securing the girls's romantic futures.

The mining industry could be considered a mainstay of the Mongolian economy.

The District, although predominantly rural has a diverse economy, with agriculture and quarrying being the traditional mainstay.

By the early 1990s, quinine, the other mainstay of malaria treatment worldwide, was failing.

The mainstay of treatment for early stage cancer is surgical removal of the tumor.

The main object of these was to invest the senate, which he recruited with a number of his own party, with full control over the state, over every magistrate and every province; and the mainstay of his political system was to be the military colonies which he had established with grants of land throughout every part of Italy, to the ruin of the old Italian freeholders and farmers, who from this time dwindled away, leaving whole districts waste and desolate.

The Ottoman troops in Arabia were mutinous and unpaid; the Albanians, long the mainstay of Turkish military power in the west, had been irritated by unpopular taxes and by the repressive edicts which deprived them of schools and a printing-press; foreign interference in Crete and Macedonia was resented by patriotic Moslems throughout the empire.

Stormtroopers, the mainstay of the Imperial Army, ride them as an alternative to speeder bikes.

Thoughout the earlier, unluckier days of the Great Northern War, Patkul was the mainstay of the confederates.

The sun is another mainstay motif that is depicted in striking brilliant colors found in fabrics and art.

The middle notes last at least four hours and are the mainstay of the fragrance's aroma.

The mainstay of any perfume, they give body and fullness to the blend.

As a newer mainstay Cover Girl product, IncrediFULL can be found almost anywhere.

Mineral makeup has enjoyed great popularity and growth in recent years, and it's no surprise that it's become a mainstay both in drugstores and high-end cosmetic establishments.

Pork was brought over by the Spanish in the sixteenth century and has been a meat mainstay along with chicken ever since.

Does this mean you should shy-away from this fashion mainstay?

Dancehall reggae - Sean Paul's musical genre - is a mainstay of the Jamaican music scene, but outside of major cities, has a limited following in the US.

Today, Shakira is a mainstay on both the American and Latin American music charts.

The celebrity reality genre has become a mainstay for VH1, with the network churning out more celebreality and less music video programming in the past couple of years.

Celebrities who have lost weight -- and usually large amounts of it -- are mainstay.

The mainstay of its products is a highly digestible formula based on chicken, lamb and rice.

Leather has long been a mainstay of the upper class because of its durability, natural properties, and elegance.

A mainstay of young people everywhere, Sean Jean has grown to include almost every fashion piece needed to make the modern wardrobe of today.

Frozen entrees have been a mainstay of the American diet since T.V.

Though they have been a mainstay in wardrobes around the world for centuries, the tunic's modern appeal is something quite fresh and unexpected.

Crystals, zig-zag shapes, and even bright, eye-catching colors are a hallmark and mainstay of these designer shades.

Loch Ness Monster - A Busch Gardens mainstay, Loch Ness reaches 60 mph, with plenty of loops and a tunnel.

Formed in 1985, the initial wines were Fumé Blanc and Chardonnay, two white wines that have been the mainstay at Murphy-Goode ever since.

The mainstay in treatment of hyperbilirubinemia is phototherapy, which is safe and widely available.

The mainstay of treatment for FMF is an oral medication called colchicine, which is highly effective for the fever and pain that accompany the disorder, as well as for amyloidosis and the kidney disease that can result from it.

Medications are the mainstay of treatment for juvenile dermatomyositis.

Intravenous immunoglubulin (IVIG) has been the mainstay of treatment for a number of primary immunodeficiencies since it was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the early 1980s.

The mainstay of prevention involves avoiding areas known to harbor ticks.

The mainstay of prevention lies in programs similar to the mass immunization program in the United States that begins immunization inoculations when infants are two months old.

Public records are a mainstay for family tree researchers.

Jeans are a mainstay in the closets of millions of women, so it's only natural that maternity jeans become an important part of your pregnancy wardrobe.