The Republicans ' counterargument that slavery was the mainstay of the enemy steadily gained support, with the Democrats crushed at the 1863 elections in Ohio when they tried to resurrect anti-black sentiment.

For most of Bodmin's history, the tin industry was a mainstay of the economy.

The UK's Ministry of Defence was originally the mainstay of Gibraltar's economy but this has greatly reduced to around 6 % of the GDP.

A mainstay in most X-Men titles, Iceman has been a main character in both Uncanny X-Men and the second volume of X-Men and was also featured in the Champions and New Defenders as a member.

Sharing parts of the design of both McLaren's Formula One M19 and Indianapolis M16 cars ( itself inspired by Lotus's 72 ), it was a mainstay for four years.

The sauce is a mainstay of Southern Italy as meat was traditionally scarce, with Bolognese sauce being attributed to the North.

During the magazine's most successful years, parody of every kind was a mainstay ; surrealist content was also central to its appeal.

The American Old West was a mainstay genre of early turn of the 19th to 20th century novels as well as later pulp magazines, and lasted longest of all the traditional pulps.

The PowerBook 500 series was the mainstay of the product line until the PowerBook 5300.

Lee was a mainstay of Capitol Records when rock ' n ' roll came onto the American music scene.

First, in 17th-century French studies, the mainstay of French literary education, awareness grew that rhetoric was necessary to push the limits of knowledge further, and also to provide an antidote to Structuralism and its denial of historicism in culture.

After leaving Davis, Carter was for several years a mainstay of CTI Records, making albums under his own name and also appearing on many of the label's records with a diverse range of other musicians.

Still, seafood was the mainstay of many coastal populations.

The reconstruction was slow in the absence of war reparations and with the destruction of the pre-war plantations, formerly the mainstay of the economy.

A key factor enabling the B-47 to become the mainstay of SAC ( and to fulfill LeMay ’ s desire for a long range bomber ) was the development of in-flight refueling.

This fire was devastating to the island because fishing is a mainstay of the economy.

Wrecking is no longer economically significant ; however, as recently as the 19th century in some parts of the world, it was the mainstay of otherwise economically marginal coastal communities.

It was the mainstay of treatment in acute asthma before the advent of bronchodilators.

Although they were skilled hunters, salmon fishing was the mainstay of traditional Muckleshoot life.

Depictions of family life alternated, and intertwined, with the shadowy crime drama that was always the strip's mainstay, such as the kidnapping of Bonnie Braids by fugitive Crewy Lou, or Junior's girlfriend, Model, being accidentally shot and killed by her brother, a wanted murderer of a police officer.

One of his mainstay enterprises was the high-volume production of hydrogen gas.

The greasy spoon was also the mainstay of British lorry drivers who travelled the major truck roads such as the A1 and the A6 prior to the opening of the motorways, see also Transport café.

Peter Tomarken, who had just come off of a 13-week gig as the host of Hit Man on NBC, was tapped to be the host, and a pilot, which included game show pilot mainstay Jack Campion, and future PYL contestant Maggie Brown ( both of whom appeared on pilot # 3 of Second Chance ) as contestants, was filmed in May 1983.

He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.

The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

Someone evidently was on duty there.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.