Muncie's current economic backbone is in health care, education, retail, and other service industries.

The restaurant proved to be the economic backbone of the wharf.

Agriculture forms the economic backbone for much of Colorado.

The lumber industry is the primary economic backbone of the region.

They are small family businesses that make up the economic and cultural backbone of the 1st Congressional district.

The economic backbone of Charlton exists almost entirely in agriculture and services.

For much of its life as an independent community, the economic backbone of the town came from coal mining.

Karachi South District is the economic backbone of the country.

Other local industries reflect the city's status as a regional base in an area whose economic backbone is agricultural.

The river was the economic backbone of the region, providing an important means of transport, trade and communication.