Using the arm, the astronaut lifted the platform's fifth truss, or backbone, segment into place.
In the last couple of weeks -- I was not here last week so forgive if you've gone over some of this territory -- there has become a small theme among some liberals that the President has either been indecisive, or lacks sufficient backbone or has failed to accomplish enough things on what progressives believe is their core agenda.
CDNs can be thought of as repeaters, stationed strategically to help manage the Internet traffic by avoiding the backbone or by finding intelligent routes through it.
"TECS really is the backbone or the mainframe, the real operating system for Customs and Border Protection that has the information from other law enforcement agencies, " said Kathy Kraninger, a former Homeland Security official and now a security consultant.
In a carefully timed attack, up to a third of the Ohios might be caught in port, leaving only nine or ten as the backbone of the retaliatory force, and several of those might be thousands of miles from where they needed to be to conduct a prompt response.
The Internet needs more capacity, or bandwidth, both in its main backbone and in its connections to schools, houses and offices.
Companies that have an expertise in technology, for example, can collaborate with non-profits or social entrepreneurs to provide the infrastructure backbone that turn their ideas into reality.
The Kensington Laptop Locking Station is built with an all steel backbone that resistants cutting, drilling or prying.
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Should some of the roughly 300 transformers that are the backbone of our electrical grid be damaged or destroyed, the interruption to the electrical grid will not be brief.
"We are the backbone of what America is, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter, " said Melanie Lugo, who with her husband and their third-grade daughter joined a rally of some 75, 000 in Denver.
Commissioner Terri Mascherin, a Chicago attorney, said the effort "could have shown a little more backbone" in repealing laws and statutes that were archaic or of questionable constitutionality.
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The singer uses this as a musical backbone to render the original composition into a qawwali, khayal or thumri (styles of singing).
Conversely, Amazon EC2 is always connected to the backbone of the internet where round-trip latency is 5 milliseconds or less to most web sites rather than the 100 milliseconds seen over wireless connections.
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These militia, officials said, give backbone to Iraqi conscripts, in part by threatening them and their families if they try to surrender or fail to fight.
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