Sentence examples for backs from inspiring English sources

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backs

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Third person singular of back

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She said David Cameron was a "guy who put a wind turbine on his house and now backs a moratorium on wind and a guy who was hugging a husky but now talks about 'cutting the green crap'".

"Things have changed a bit since my time," she adds, raising her eyebrows at two women, one black, one white, who wear nothing but discreet jewels between their legs and red feather head-dresses which trail down their backs.

Behind the backs of mainstream channels, anime on the web has blossomed.

Ninety-two corpses have been found in the Niger desert; mothers with braided hair and infants strapped to their backs, children with Qur'anic boards tucked under their arms, old men in prayer caps and long robes.

Seemingly our MPs don't feel so "uncomfortable" about profit-making happening on the backs of other countries' kids So why, then, has Justine Greening, the secretary of state for international development, given speeches bigging up the for-profit international schools and handed out cash to them?

2.37pm BST14:37 UN general assembly backs resolution on Syria The UN general assembly has overwhelmingly denounced Syria's crackdown and demanded the securing of its chemical and biological weapons.

Even with a good spread of skills and people willing to put their backs into the job, Bainbridge believes those who volunteer for a role on the board do need training.

That's what justice looks like to Coshelle Greene, a modern mother who rose above stereotypes and circumstances that have pushed so many other parents to turn their backs on people like her son.

It was then handed over to someone who had their backs to the Guardian and presumably then taken away and destroyed.

Today, Miliband has made a popular pledge on education spending, taken a stance against tax avoidance – and been proved right, when Lord Fink backs down after telling a journalist that "everybody" avoids tax.

"Nic backs Tories", says the front page of the Daily Star in Scotland, with a full page devoted to her inside.

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