Sentence examples for professional backbone from inspiring English sources

For example, the European Union is training hundreds of noncommissioned officers in Uganda right now, trying to prepare a professional backbone to stiffen Somalia's rank and file.

All of these industry professionals – the backbone of the German economy – are required to practise a skill in which they have received little or no formal training.

I think the resentment and anger is felt among the middle class – the civil servants, the teachers, the soldiers, the public-sector workers, the professional classes, the backbone of the British nation".

Professional nurses, the backbone of the wartime service, failed to get legal recognition of registered status until 1943.

As is the case with other PHC programmes, professional nurses form the backbone of the ART programme in South Africa.

The staffing requirements for the ART programme stipulated in the Plan also indicate that professional nurses are the backbone of the programme.

The Pandits formed the backbone of the professional class, and filled most of the teaching and government jobs.

The learning and participation programmes of professional ensembles are also the backbone for the research and development work that will grow the musicians, listeners and audiences of the future.

But Senator Frank Murkowski (R-AK), who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee responsible for the confirmation, warned yesterday that the job demands someone "with the proper professional background and a stiff backbone".

The paper focuses on issues pertaining to staffing of the programme with professional nurses – regarded as the backbone of PHC in South Africa – in the first 38 ART sites of the five districts in the province.

Robertson said: "An elite professional rugby union league is the backbone and now required for successful national-side play.