Small businesses are the backbone of the economy and need to be treated fairly.

All too often we forget what constitutes the real backbone of the economy.

We owe it to our small businesses — the backbone of the economy — to ensure they are paid on time.

There are 5.9 million firms which form the backbone of the economy, employing some 16.6 million workers.

Meanwhile, small firms - the backbone of the economy - are pulling down the shutters.

We run some of the five million small businesses that form the economic backbone of this country.

The restaurant proved to be the economic backbone of the wharf.

The manufacture of furniture, textiles, mirrors, garments, and hardwood flooring formed the economic backbone for the area.

For much of its life as an independent community, the economic backbone of the town came from coal mining.

The river was the economic backbone of the region, providing an important means of transport, trade and communication.

These beams, deep and architecturally most impressive, provide the backbone for the design, lifting the body of the house off the ground to rest on columns.

Other people's lives are endlessly fascinating, and the interviews that provide the backbone of this book are no exception.

These networks provide the backbone upon which statewide services are based.

These assumptions provide the backbone for rational choice theory.

The initial non-military application of distributed element filters was in the microwave links used by telecommunications companies to provide the backbone of their networks.