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.
Economic growth was also a pillar of his national security and foreign policy.
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.
South Korean officials said the aid shipments could form a pillar of recently elected President Park Geun-hye's "trust" policy toward Pyongyang.
That sometimes controversial program was a pillar of President Bush's first term.
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.
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.
During the last few turbulent years in the financial markets, it has been a pillar of relative stock-market strength, a kind of haven for equity investors.
Yes, I am claiming that a single book belongs up there with tax cuts, a strong dollar and the PC as a pillar of the American renaissance.
Lord (Robin) Butler, a former cabinet secretary and master of an Oxford college, may be a pillar of the establishment, but he is no New Labour patsy.
In a striking departure from the ideological preferences of the post-Vietnam Democratic Party, President Barack Obama has made overseas arms sales a pillar of U.S. foreign policy.
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Brought back to Damascus as head of the Political Security Directorate three years ago, before becoming interior minister in October 2004, Mr Kanaan was a pillar of the regime.
He chose to retire early and to become a pillar of San Francisco activities like the San Francisco ballet and his beloved Commonwealth Club, where he played a key role.
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