Sentence examples for backbone to stand from inspiring English sources

It's time for someone with a backbone to stand up and do what needs to be done".

"How can you think a community organizer has the backbone to stand up for America?" "Why do you disparage community organizers?

They are a growing army and they are will take the side of anyone who has the backbone to stand up for them.

A left which – or so runs the line – is too complacent, too cosmopolitan, too secular and too lacking in an ideological backbone to stand up for Israel's interests.

In Vienna, Die Presse wrote that after taking an initial position defending the mosque, "he doesn't have the backbone to stand up for it".

And there's a smart young detective named Stephen Moran, who ought to be cowed by Frank's bullying but has enough quiet backbone to stand his ground.

President Bush, going to the martial setting of a Florida naval station, challenged the U.N. to show "backbone and courage," to stand up to Iraq or be seen as "an ineffective, irrelevant debating society".

Building moral character and developing the moral backbone in a child to stand alone against appallingly antisocial acts are obviously parental tasks that have not been undertaken.

He says to the United Nations on Sept. 12, if this organization has a backbone it is going to stand up to Saddam Hussein, demand inspections for the weapons of mass destruction and remove or destroy them.

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

Third, one must be strong (have a backbone, as they say) to stand up and walk away when the conversation turns to speaking ill of others.