Sentence examples for firm backbone from inspiring English sources

It is time for Labour MPs to demonstrate a firm backbone and back the Ashley compromise.

The sturdy chorus, much enlarged, and the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, incorporating many of the collegium players (but happily not their tuning ritual), also gave firm backbone to the Missa.

To the president's credit, he held firm on no negotiations until the government was reopened, and ultimately there was significant support in both houses of Congress by the GOP, along with a refreshing display of leadership and firm backbone by President Obama.

Last year, two students with firm backbones used to duck into the library, go online and trade high-risk penny stocks.

At least beautiful Rafalca has a much firmer backbone than Romney.

A regional government inventories existing small- and medium-sized firms, the backbone of many local communities.

For its part, Level 3 is no longer the backbone firm of yore, moving bits efficiently among networks.

So it made sense that BBN would end up a major Internet backbone firm.

If, for example, a student living in London sends an email to a friend in Brazil, the message will hop around the network and will often travel through a backbone firm like Level 3 Communications in the USA, which describes itself as "network provider for much of the world's communications infrastructure".

Today the prime minister lauded small firms as the "backbone of our economy" and claimed that there are now 760,000 more businesses than there were in 2010.

The latest data from individual firms was the backbone of Citi's constructive view.