Sinews

One key area is infrastructure, which provides the sinews for development and growth -- power, water, sanitation, telecommunications, roads, railways, ports and airports, he said.

It is out there, with athletes baring sinews and muscles and vulnerabilities and triumphs in front of gawking audiences.

An extant inscription from the Athenian arsenal, dated between 338 and 326 BC, lists a number of stored catapults with shooting bolts of varying size and springs of sinews.

From the Greek for glue, kolla, the word collagen means " glue producer" and refers to the early process of boiling the skin and sinews of horses and other animals to obtain glue.

Here was a character with flesh, blood and sinews.

Leonardo's anatomical drawings include many studies of the human skeleton and its parts, and of muscles and sinews.

O.E.D. 2nd Edition 2005 citation This refers to the compound's early use in the process of boiling the skin and sinews of horses and other animals to obtain glue.

They made thread from the sinews of different animals and fish guts.

Those who have remained chaste for the longest time, receive the greatest commendation among their people; they think that by this the growth is promoted, by this the physical powers are increased and the sinews are strengthened.

Traditionally, the gákti was made from reindeer leather and sinews, but nowadays, it is more common to use wool, cotton, or silk.

With all his sinews around his neck; Forty Doctors and forty wrights Couldn't put Humpty Dumpty to rights!