Sentence examples for kind of backbone from inspiring English sources

"Where did NZ find that kind of backbone from?

I couldn't imagine that kind of backbone; I had listened silently through my own notification, then thanked the soldiers as they left.

Their latest defeat, a miserable capitulation contrived despite going a goal up at Selhurst Park through Papiss Cissé, was yet another mass dereliction of duty from a team lacking any kind of backbone or power of recovery.

"We often admire this kind of backbone and we are apt to attribute courage to those who run considerable risks in sticking to their guns," said Professor Dwyer, who teaches moral philosophy focusing on issues like abortion, pornography and assisted suicide.

Enterprise IPOs are usually the kind of backbone of a lot of venture firms because they're predictable.

Unfortunately, that kind of backbone is not part of the State Department's DNA, whether under a Republican or Democratic president.

Epoxy-based azo polymers with three kinds of backbones, different types of azo chromophores, and selected degrees of functionalization (DFs), were synthesized through a post-polymerization azo-coupling scheme.

Hemicellulose, the second most abundant plant polysaccharide, is a group of complex structures composed of different residues with three kinds of backbones and many different branches (Fig.  2).

There is also still a touch of envy, some here say -- not of the tragedy itself, of course, but of the kind of civic backbone New York has demonstrated.

"Nobody has seen more team golf on our team than him," said Love, who described Mickelson as "kind of the backbone of the team".

In May, an international trade agreement was signed that effectively serves as a kind of legal backbone for the restructuring of world markets.