Sentence examples for backbone director from inspiring English sources

"We need to show some steel and backbone," director of rugby Cockerill told BBC East Midlands Today.

This steady rhythm of the build-up and release of tension as well as the drug-like effects of being intimately close to death forms the backbone of director Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, a film that follows the daily grind of an Army "EOD" (explosive ordinance disposal) unit as they squirrel away the last forty days of their rotation in Baghdad at the height of the Iraq War in 2004.

ETD stands for electron transfer dissociation, valuable as a "type of fragmentation that lets you map PTMs to your protein backbone," says Andreas Huhmer, director of 'omics marketing for life science mass spectrometry at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

This means, naturally, that they are possessed of more strength of character and backbone when facing finance directors intent on cooking the books.American auditors now face strict new laws on audit independence.

Jimmy is James Levine, the Met's music director and artistic backbone.

The Secretariat is the agency's backbone and is headed by a director general appointed by the General Conference for a six-year term.

Robert Tapert, a producer who is married to the "Xena" actress Lucy Lawless, has formed the backbone; Mr. Tapert, in partnership with the American director Sam Raimi, produced "Spartacus" for Starz and is finishing a new "Evil Dead" movie.

Their stories formed the backbone of a book by the project director, Ed Moloney, and of a television documentary.

David Babani, the Menier's artistic director, said: "It has the backbone of a musical comedy but is actually quite serious subject matter.

In particular we are very proud of our director Cate Carson, she has been the backbone to the whole project, we know how hard she has worked on every level and as a female director she deserves to get the same opportunities every male director gets.

If outside directors had backbones they'd speak out at board meetings.