South Korea, a pillar of strength in East Asia, is also experiencing difficulties.
He described the armed forces as "a pillar of the nation's resilience and strength".
The 70-year-old Mr. Madoff wasn't some dot-com upstart but a pillar of the community and philanthropist.
It's a pillar of our economy that has held up the dreams of millions of our people.
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Mrs Shipley, the transport minister in Mr Bolger's cabinet, is regarded as a pillar of the right.
He tore a pillar out of the ceiling, a sink and mirrors off the wall, doors off their hinges.
Economic growth was also a pillar of his national security and foreign policy.
In the square a fifty something woman whose face is weather beaten into manly lines, crouches down by a pillar.
By the late 1950s psychoanalysis had become a pillar of psychiatry, though it never had been rigorously tested in trials.
Local officials say it's a pillar of the shoreline community's tourist industry, drawing customers to restaurants, motels and gift shops.
Many see their paper as a pillar of democracy in the "midst of society", according to Kai Diekmann, its editor.
This cultural heritage, associated to the development of quality education, is a pillar of peace building and society in Mali.
Which is a pretty poor showing for such a pillar of the community, such a poster child for responsible capitalism.
She said the mobility of Labour was a "key achievement" of the EU and "a pillar" of the single market.
South Korean officials said the aid shipments could form a pillar of recently elected President Park Geun-hye's "trust" policy toward Pyongyang.
He appeared at Rothesay Sheriff Court in February 2009 where he admitted setting alight a pillar box on the Isle of Bute.
So slender a pillar will not sustain the weight of this war.
That sometimes controversial program was a pillar of President Bush's first term.
For instance, a pillar will mark the intersection of the Llanberis and Snowdon Ranger paths, which the authority said walkers often mix up.
Fears about rising oil prices have taken a leg out from under the energy sector, once a pillar of strength in the markets.
For years, the Nationalmannschaft, as the team is known, was a pillar of organization and fairly boring soccer played by a homogenous group.
Ms. Zhu says investors have bought into sectors like commodities and machinery on expectations that infrastructure investment will remain a pillar of urbanization.
Consider the glass-encased skeleton of Belgrave Joe, a pillar of the Fox Terrier breed who died in 1888 at the age of 19.
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In its statement, read on state TV by a military official, the Supreme Council said the judiciary is a pillar of Egyptian society.
This is a pillar of great importance for people-to-people contact, for cooperation between our two great nations, Comprehensive Partnership that we possess right now.
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Peter, a man who his friends described as a pillar of the London tango community, says that "there is just nothing like the tango".
First National Bank of Keystone, once a pillar of its West Virginia mining community, was hailed throughout the 1990s as one of the best-performing banks in the nation.
Diana and Dodi were killed last August along with driver Henri Paul when their Mercedes lost control in a Paris underpass and smashed into a pillar.
It looks like Getco, not long ago an outsider, is part of the establishment and a pillar of the American economy, or something of the sort.
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