Sentence examples for backs up by from inspiring English sources

The frontrunner is Diane James, who has put everyone's backs up by refusing to turn up for any of the hustings.

This brings us back to families, which, Denizet-Lewis maintains, often cause addictions, a conclusion he backs up by pointing to his subjects, whose childhood traumas range from being raped by a family member to, in his own case, having "an authoritarian and emotionally withdrawn mother".

If authors get their colleagues' backs up by being dogmatic or impolite, I would venture to suggest that they would, on the whole, be less likely to receive a nice smooth ride when these same colleagues review their manuscript.

"We're back up by three games," he said.

Seconds later the Rangers are back up by a deuce!

A strategy must be based on a vision and backed-up by a political resolution.

Scientific claims are backed up by evidence.

He was backed up by David Paniagua, Ignacio Sanchez Blanco and Paul Vaquero.

This is backed up by the figures.

Its investigation was backed up by video.

Sloganeering was not backed up by execution.