Sentence examples for little backbone from inspiring English sources

But perhaps Graham could show a little backbone?

A friend with a little backbone is nothing to sneeze at.

It is time for our party, the Democratic Party, to show a little backbone, to have a little guts.

By punishing lawmakers who dare to show a little backbone, the Republican majority is doing itself a disservice.

In a tiny coffin I found a lot of dust, a terrible smell, a little backbone and a shoulder bone".

A little backbone by the leagues and the lawmakers would solve the problem pretty quickly, to everyone's benefit.

With a little political backbone, the crisis of the single currency can bring about what some once hoped for from a common European foreign policy, namely promoting a cross-border awareness of a shared European destiny.

Investors will show "a little more backbone" in curbing it, "having rather fluffed it last year", predicts Anne Simpson, who oversees the corporate-governance activities of CalPERS, a giant pension fund for California's public employees.

I needed a little more backbone, and words from your father can be just enough difference.

It has to be symbolically, because we just don't have enough of the little "golden backbone" statuettes normally awarded to let everyone who called Washington this week have their own.

Portuguese brandy puts a little fire and backbone into bread pudding filled with toasted almonds and raisins.