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    mainstay


    1. Given that the family remains the mainstay of care for older people in rural areas, boosting the household income is essential to improving care, including access to health care


    2. ‘And what has put that twinkle in your eye, Dave Jarvis?’ Doris, the mainstay of the police station asked as he went into the back office after leaving James to talk to Andy


    3. Horses were a mainstay on Colling’s uncles’ farms in Wisconsin, but the three that Tomasz showed him were not as large or as healthy-looking


    4. Thus the mainstay of the Republic was, at the


    5. " And it was ever so; in matters requiring deliberate and sustained courage, Thomas was always the mainstay of the twelve apostles


    6. An unexpected outcome of my calculations was that the small Addressograph presses remained the mainstay of the on-site plants


    7. averages the mainstay of technical analysis but will not predict volatile jumps or reactions


    8. get at road stands everywhere in Brazil back in the early seventies: a very rough, cheap, cane rum with lime and sugar; it was the national mainstay, like beer or Coke is here


    9. Paul went into a city where another god was the mainstay, and he never said one bad thing about the other god


    10. With the mainstay of the population, so to say, enamored of them, and they too having come to value the ancient Hindu philosophy, which got reduced to mere prejudice by then, the British loved India as best as their own interests would allow them to do

    11. ARC FURNACE :For long time ARC Furnace was the mainstay of a Steel


    12. The mainstay of treatment is phlebotomy and aspirin which can bring the hematocrit to a normal level (lower than 45%) and decrease the risk of thrombosis


    13. · Choice B (Mainstay of treatment is phlebotomy and aspirin) is a true statement


    14. This is due to detrusor over-activity and the mainstay of treatment is either anti-cholinergics or tricyclic antidepressants


    15. If you want to do away with competition as a mainstay of our civilized culture: you would first have to first create a non-competitive community with a non-competitive lifestyle… and create non-competitive games and non-competitive rules to test this and see if it is a better way to live or not


    16. The mainstay of the American economy is still small business


    17. Greed had already been an integral, unspoken mainstay of European culture; Hundreds of years before dickens lived


    18. “It used to be a mainstay of Special Forces


    19. the Hamilton family for years! called untrustworthy and an “old pet,” he, Peter, who had been the dignified mainstay of Scarlett felt, rather than saw, the black chin begin to shake with hurt pride, and a


    20. The mainstay of the company’s production for 70 years—the Conglomerate Branch—was facing exhaustion “in the course of 12 or 14 months

    21. Hard disk drives (HDDs) have been the mainstay for many small networks, including home networks, for several years


    22. I believe investing in foreign countries, both developed and emerging, will become a mainstay for both aggressive and conservative investors as we move into the next decade


    23. This might occur if there are major industry layoffs or if an aircraft, auto, or steel plant that is an important mainstay of a local community closes


    24. For now she understood him better than when he was alive, she understood the yearning of his love, the urgent need he felt to find in her the security that seemed to be the mainstay of his public life and that in reality he never possessed


    25. One-half of the world's tin is produced in the Malay States; it is mined chiefly in Selangor and Malacca, and forms the mainstay of the country's prosperity, though, curiously enough, little or no stanniferous deposits have been found on the eastern side of the dividing range


    26. Wondering and bewildered, feeling that he had lost his mainstay, conscious that the crisis was near at hand, Bishop Chalmers looked about him


    27. Fiske herself is its mainstay


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    Synonyms for "mainstay"

    mainstay anchor backbone keystone linchpin lynchpin pillar prop column support buttress strut stay

    "mainstay" definitions

    a prominent supporter


    a central cohesive source of support and stability


    the forestay that braces the mainmast