Sentence examples for like a backbone from inspiring English sources

"The Z1 truss is like a backbone for the rest of the systems coming aboard," he said.

We zipped along the highway that runs like a backbone from the airport to our destination, the Paradise Cove hotel in the north-east - a journey of about an hour.

Mohammed Naim Hamidzai Lalai, the chairman of the Afghan Parliament's internal security committee and a Kandahari, said, "His presence in Kandahar was like a backbone for the security of the province".

Level 3 does act like a backbone and it is an extremely important backbone.

Greenwich Street in Tribeca runs like a backbone down one of the most expensive zip codes on the East Coast, with the type of restaurants strung along it that you'd be embarrassed to walk into wearing jeans.

"I tend to like crime for a backbone," Mr. Price said recently.

Tough luck if you thought the last eight years would give guys like Blitzer a backbone.

The NJ analysis resulted in a star-like dendrogram with a backbone of short branches lacking bootstrap support greater than 75%.

They are analogues of 4-phospho d-erythronate, with a sugar-like backbone, a carboxylic moiety and a phosphate group.

Pterosaurs were the first vertebrates - animals, like us, with a backbone - to evolve powered flight, about 230 million years ago.

The vice president cited the story, he said, to show that "this guy's got a backbone like a ramrod".