The phrase "backbone by" is not a complete sentence and is not grammatically correct.
It is possible that it was intended to be part of a larger sentence, but without context it is difficult to determine its correct usage. However, below are two examples that illustrate how the phrase could be used in a sentence: - The company's success was the backbone of its growth, driven by its dedicated employees. - The community was able to rebuild after the disaster, with its resilience as the backbone, supported by the generous donations from volunteers.
Some people have backbone by the metric ton".
A little backbone by the leagues and the lawmakers would solve the problem pretty quickly, to everyone's benefit.
He has also sought to demonstrate something of a moral backbone by sticking to his stance on abortion, despite its unpopularity among the Republican base.
That is, the handicrafts, scavenging, sexual openness, psychedelic palette, body decorations and druggy spirituality of the hippie era are being given backbone by the reductivist tendencies, material eccentricities and political consciousness of Conceptual Art and Process Art.
The failure of the International Tennis Federation to suspend Serena for her U.S. Open outburst against a lineswoman exposed yet again the pathetic lack of backbone by authorities in that sport.
It was given further backbone by his aristocratic mien, which was not without a gracious common touch, and his old-fashioned education, which held before him Victorian ideals of personal integrity and devotion to public service".
I felt like Koja was trying to give Lily more of a backbone by showing how she decides to stay at the school and learn to make a life for herself there without Hazel.
Take a pair of kitchen scissors and, starting with the neck end, remove the backbone by cutting about ½cm from either side of the bone; you'll then be able to remove it easily.
For this purpose, the breaking of the polymer backbone by means of ozonolysis was necessary.
This suggests the removal of hydrogen atoms from saturated carbons on the polymer backbone by fluorinated radical species.
The macromonomer contains a hydrophobic pendant group separated from the backbone by a polyethylene glycol spacer chain.
