The club had found its backbone.
To Blatter's vehement critics – including some respected senior figures in European football who really loathe him – the ban by an ethics committee, which has found its backbone, represents the grubby reality of Blatter's methods finally, far too late, catching up with him.
Since my backbone found its own natural shape, I've been entirely comfortable in my skin.
We used the program Coot [ 84] to examine N736 in the structure of PfLAMMER and found that its backbone conformation lies in a disallowed region of the Ramachandran plot, indicating that torsion-angle strain occurs here.
Most of the xylan found is heteroxylan and its backbone could be branched due to substitution of different side groups such as L-arabinose, D-galactose, acetyl, feruloyl, p-coumaroyl, and glucuronic acid residues.
This time, Congress must find the backbone to protect it.
Robert Ofsevit of Oakland, Calif., asked, "Why can't The New York Times call torture by its proper name?" He added, "Please find more backbone and fulfill your journalistic responsibilities by describing these immoral and illegal practices for what they were".
If it sounds strident that's because it is: we have to find the backbone to reject Victorian sentimentality and insist on adequate living standards as a prerogative.
"I don't know what sort of hold Lord Ashcroft has over David Cameron that he could not find the backbone, the bottle, to ask the relevant questions.
Macron operates without a strong political base on the left or the right, and when, as is bound to happen, his policy proposals provoke demonstrations in the streets, he will somehow have to find more backbone to stand up for reform than any previous French President has found.
