The phrase "as much backbone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone’s courage, determination, or strength of character in a situation.
Example: "In the face of adversity, she showed as much backbone as anyone could hope for."
Alternatives: "as much courage" or "as much resolve".
Since Canaris has been keenly observing college manners during his long tenure (the platitudes have as much backbone as "jellyfish in an X-ray machine") he knows the dangers of chirpy euphemisms.
Q. Do you blame the House Democratic majority? A. A goodly number of senators, even of my own party, have shown about as much backbone as so many angleworms.
In December, Australia's environment ministers agreed to a new national waste policy, which O'Loughlin says is full of good intentions but has "as much backbone as you'll find in the average plastic shopping bag".
They are as much the backbone of what we eat as bread, pasta and potatoes are.
FriendFeed is as much the structural backbone for Twitter as it is for Facebook, and Williams' comments about not seeing two-way synchronization as particularly useful between the two clouds was the least perceptive comment he made at Web 2.0.
Consumer groups and some rival companies that oppose MCI's proposed merger with Worldcom and some independent analysts have estimated that a combined MCI Worldcom would control as much as 70percentt of the Internet backbone, a figure both companies dispute.
Because containment is as much psychological as physical, basing will be its backbone".
If Katrine's burdens seem lighter in comparison, time will tell whether she's erred in exchanging TV1's spineless editor for Ekspres' Michael Laugesen Peter Mygindd), who possesses more backbone than a brontosaurus and about as much humanity.
The love of country, the desire to assist other countries who need help, and the concern for those who do not have as much as others are all common themes which run through the backbone of both parties.
Hynde's musical awakening and her pre-fame escapades form the backbone of Reckless, a gritty, visceral work that is as much a chronicle of cultural change as it is an account of her slow rise to fame.
The E-class series is its biggest line, the backbone of its fleet, and as such easily twice as much as, for example, Ford's $22,000 Taurus wagon.
