But with their financial backbone and client base removed, it was perhaps predictable that they would not last long.

Retail advertising, the financial backbone of the industry, is down, in part because many department stores have fallen on hard times.

His medical practice, he said, provided the winery's financial backbone.

Another 30,000 were refugees in Europe and North America, and their children became the highly educated financial backbone of the movement.

The Foundation, incorporated as an entity separate from the Grand Chapter in 1947, serves as the financial backbone of the fraternity.

But diamonds serve as the financial backbone for jewelers nationwide, and while some have tried to match Internet prices, many still refuse to compete on that basis.

The backlist is the financial backbone of the book industry, accounting for 25 to 30 percent of the average publisher's sales.

Nowadays NRI's act as the financial backbone for this small urban village.

A core group of business donors - oil, tobacco, guns, real estate and software - now form the financial backbone of the modern Republican Party.

The livestock industry remains an important component in Utah's economy, but it is no longer "Ogden's financial backbone."