Sentence examples for much backbone from inspiring English sources

Having built too much backbone in the boom of the late 1990s, they now find their problems compounded by their networks' fibre-optic technology.

Since Canaris has been keenly observing college manners during his long tenure (the platitudes have as much backbone as "jellyfish in an X-ray machine") he knows the dangers of chirpy euphemisms.

Q. Do you blame the House Democratic majority? A. A goodly number of senators, even of my own party, have shown about as much backbone as so many angleworms.

The tenors, especially: Oliver Mercer, who lent so much backbone to the performance by the St. Thomas Choir of Men and Boys in March, did likewise here, in superb partnership with Rufus Müller, one of the strongest and finest tenors on the early-music scene today.

Not much backbone there, and it's no surprise that they can't hold on to executives.

I think hatin' on speed cameras doesn't take much backbone.

The current one, Dominic Grieve QC, has shown much more backbone and I welcomed his decision to be much more rigorous in prosecuting papers.

The base beers are typically pale ales; light in colour and without too much malty backbone so the hops take centre stage and really show off their fresh aromas.

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

The film, which will be released next month, has caused quite an uproar with some moviegoers claiming this new remake will ruin the original, although remakes are pretty much the backbone of Hollywood.

In contrast, under alkaline conditions heparin-bound catB exhibited much smaller backbone fluctuations (2 Å) than the very flexible apo form in these conditions.