Sentence examples for Lack of backbone from inspiring English sources

It was Mr. Obama, he argued, who showed a lack of backbone on the issue.

And once again Washington may be demonstrating its lack of backbone.

One problem is a lack of backbone links, particularly to Africa.

Just three months after taking the House, Republican political instincts have become as bad as the Democrats' lack of backbone.

What troubled her more, though, was what this incident seemed to reveal about her own lack of backbone.

Algeria is frustrated by the apparent inertia and alleged lack of backbone shown by some of its southern neighbours.

Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, countered in a speech in Berlin that the conditions that gave rise to the current turmoil in the markets were allowed to develop because of a reckless pursuit of short-term profit and huge bonuses in "Anglo-Saxon" financial centers — along with a lack of political backbone to stand up to what he characterized as bankers' greed.

(Lively excerpts from the reviews are included as a special feature in the booklet that accompanied the Decca-London recording in 1966). The main lines of criticism are these: mawkish piety; Victorian sentimentality; regular tunes and predictable harmonies; lack of dramatic backbone.

In this study, we show that disrupting backbone H-bonding interactions by substituting dimer interface β-strand residues with proline (Pro) results in fully folded and functional monomers, by exploiting proline's unique feature, the lack of a backbone amide proton.

Nothing is stopping them from doing so, except a lack of political backbone.

"There's a lack of moral backbone in the Republican Party to stand up to Islamophobia and that's what needs to be addressed". .