Sentence examples for backbone down from inspiring English sources

Their rib cages extend all the way along their backbone, down to the hind legs, similar to those of snakes.

Greenwich Street in Tribeca runs like a backbone down one of the most expensive zip codes on the East Coast, with the type of restaurants strung along it that you'd be embarrassed to walk into wearing jeans.

Though he made no mention of Solyndra, the bankrupt solar company that benefited from a government loan program, or Keystone XL, the controversial oil pipeline he rejected to much celebration and criticism last week, the president showed political backbone in refusing to back down from his commitment to investing in developing renewables.

We will not always get as far as we wish but people will respect you taking us as far as we can go as long as you exhibit the resolve and backbone to face down the opposition.

And all the other Libs Regret you greatly So here's a backbone Stand down maybe Updated at 11.33am GMT 10.37am GMT Rebecca Ratcliffe sends this photo of the students she is travelling with from Kent to London for the march.

Especially if it would reroute mission-critical traffic when parts of the net backbone go down.

Party members who have lost their backbones have broken down or have joined the camp of the enemy; healthy elements have fought for the party.

Figure 1(B) shows the so-called network backbone (a scaled-down representation [15]).

Central, provincial and district levels constitute the backbone of the top-down hierarchical health sector organization.

The small, whole chicken, cut down the backbone and cooked under a brick to flatten, was burned on the outside.

"The idea is that if the government takes down the backbone for the internet in a country (like Egypt has done), takes down the mobile cellular networks and potentially the fixed line communications line there has to be other ways for people to communicate.