English example sentences with "mainstay"

He was the mainstay of this family.
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Food production is a mainstay of the country's economy.
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Tourism has become the mainstay of the economy.
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Tourism is the mainstay of the economy and depends on conditions in the euro-zone countries.
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In the beginning of the twentieth century, the Philippine elite started switching from Spanish to English as the archipelagic elitist language, especially in written form, as a consequence of the Spanish-American War in 1898. Meanwhile, indigenous languages have continued to be the aural-oral mainstay, with Spanish loanwords being quite common. In 1937, administration chose Tagalog as the basis of the national language. As time passed, code-switching between English and indigenous languages became more prevalent. As a result, the Philippines is a linguistic hodgepodge. English is like an effervescent pink drink, and Tagalog is a grey shark in the seas. Spanish still rings nostalgically of bygone majestic good ol' days for many Filipinos. Tagalog is still not as fully "intellectualized" as its cousin Indonesian, which Indonesians use in university-level education and has extensive literature.
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Forms of Animism were the mainstay in ancient Philippines, even as a marginal far-flung domain of ancient Buddho-Hindu Srivijaya. As the Muslims converted natives in the south of the Philippines, then later as Roman Catholics converted natives in the north, Animism diminished.
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