Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, providing a livelihood for over 80% of the population and accounting for 41% of GDP.
Agriculture, including fishing and forestry, is the mainstay of the economy, accounting for one-third of GDP and contributing more than 70% to export earnings.
Oil has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy, providing a major share of government revenues and exports.
Tourism, another mainstay of the economy, accounts for 24% of GDP.
The Suez Canal may be the mainstay of the British Empire, but I have no doubt that it would make just as satisfactory a mainstay for some other empire.
But though Shaw was the mainstay of the enterprise, it gave opportunities to several other writers, the most notable being John Galsworthy (b.
He's been the mainstayof my team for the last ten years.
Hitherto the intensity of the belief of the Apostles has been the mainstay of our own belief.
WE have been the mainstay of unbelief through our timidity.
Agriculture, including fishing and forestry, is the mainstayof the economy, accounting for 30% of GDP and contributing more than 70% to export earnings.
He was our mainstay for gunnery since Captain Rhodes's misfortune" (also caused by the bursting of a cannon).
The mainstay of the Catholic Church rests with the Austrian monarchy and with the death of the old Emperor, it would--in fact have to--look to some other country and ruler for protection.
In fact, this body of men is the mainstay of the thrones in the German Empire, especially of Prussia.
Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, providing a livelihood for over 80% of the population and accounting for 40% of GDP.
Agriculture, including fishing and forestry, is a mainstay of the economy, accounting for one-fourth of GDP and employing four-fifths of the population.
America, the new county, became in 1918 the salvation of starving Belgium, the mainstay of England, the hope of France!
In the beginning man's struggle was for life and the mainstay of life was food.
He was ourmainstay for gunnery since Captain Rhodes’s misfortune” (also caused by the bursting of a cannon).
To the Indian, however, the guanaco is the mainstayof life.
But the mainstay of the Yahgan was the shell-fish.
The mainstay of the nation had fallen with the disappearance of the sterling middle class.
Now, a state of this nature and form must of necessity be small, and as government expanded and its functions increased, the representative principle should have been introduced as a mainstay to the public system.
I know that in a certain little room on the left I shall find the hostess, and that she, the mainstay and prop of the establishment, will spare no pains to assist a countryman.
I shall have to be the mainstay of my father’s house.
Eating and dancing form the mainstay of the composition, and since the female characters are described but do not speak, it may be questioned whether the piece was intended for representation.
The mainstay of this region is the grape, but, in seeking for a more diversified agriculture, Sour Cherry culture was introduced some twenty years ago and has become a thriving industry with prospects of continued growth.
Falkirk onwards the archers became more and more the mainstay of an English army.
Accordingly the prevailing scheme of assigning merit and blame, while on the whole a mainstay of moral guidance and instruction, is also a menace to moral growth.
While the possession of such an immediate, unreflective responsiveness to elements of good and bad must be the mainstay of moral wisdom, the character which lies back of these intuitive apprehensions must be thoughtful and serious-minded.
The number of manufacturing plants will doubtless increase, but agriculture is bound to remain the mainstay of the country.
The table on the opposite page shows the quantity and value of the principal exports of the Dominican Republic since 1913 and is the best illustration of the fact that agriculture is the mainstay of the country.
If the facts ever come to light it will probably be found that Burghley was Bacon's mainstay for financial support.
Sagacious, deliberate in thought and character, tolerant, a man of peace and compromise, he became the mainstay of the Queen's government and the most influential man in State affairs.
The achievements which combined to perfect the tungsten lamp to the point where it has become the mainstay of electric lighting are not attached to names in the Hall of Fame.
Electric incandescent lamps are the present mainstay of electric illumination and, it might be stated, of progress in lighting.
The incandescent burner was widely employed, and until the use of electricity became common the lime-light was the mainstayfor the stage and for the projection of lantern slides.
In Vilna, as in Odessa, the coterie of local Maskilim formed the mainstay of Lilienthal, the apostle of enlightenment, in, his struggle with the orthodox.
Adults were seized and, regardless of their being the only mainstay of their families, were taken captive, and children of eight were captured and presented to the recruiting authorities as being of the obligatory age of twelve.
This inevitable hour is always marked by the weakening of the ideal that was the mainstay of the race.
At the present day the great fundamental ideas which were the mainstay of our fathers are tottering more and more.
