Sentence examples for lack backbone from inspiring English sources

He declared that the country has fallen into trouble because the American people lack backbone.

I use it for bolstering a salad of raw sugar snaps, grilled courgettes or steamed asparagus that would otherwise lack backbone.

But what a student hears is something like, you aren't strong enough, or you need to man-up, or you lack backbone.

Rick Perry has many of the qualities that Romney seems to lack: backbone, core convictions, a killer instinct and a primal understanding of the right-wing electorate.

It turns out that "Invertebrates - animals like flies and squid that lack backbones - have only one Dlg gene.

It is enforcement, however, that lacks backbone.

Several women said they thought Mr. Gore lacked backbone.

But generals who think he lacks backbone or nationalist vigour will not be at all happy with such an arrangement.

In a recent interview with Truth Dig, he echoes the right in claiming that Obama is "weak", lacks "backbone" and has yet to show "real spine".

"The foreign ministry was inundated with letters offering calcium pills," says a Chinese official by which he means that many Chinese felt their leadership lacked backbone in the showdown with the Americans.

But mostly I lacked backbone.