Sentence examples for show backbone from inspiring English sources

An exasperated Rafael Benitez has pleaded with his players to show backbone as Liverpool's crisis worsens.

Last weekend, the former boss of Marks & Spencer was wheeled out to urge employers to show "backbone" over work experience.

Now, he said, President Obama should "show backbone" and shove the dictator to the exits, or to the grave.

Romney touched on foreign policy only briefly, pledging to show "backbone" to Russian president Vladimir Putin and deriding Obama for failing to halt Iran's nuclear development.

Speaking to executives at a forum in Beijing to introduce his book, Dr. Santoro said they needed to show "backbone and courage".

"You can demonstrate determination and willingness to make difficult choices, to show backbone and courage, to confront adversity calmly and skillfully.

But she showed backbone, too, stepping forward with three backup singers in her feminist anthem, "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves," and celebrating unvarnished lust with Eurythmics' "I Need a Man".

That shows backbone and world-champion potential.

Those few still showing backbone were indentified, and publicly hunted down.

Showing backbone now will at least give us some glimmer of hope that they can achieve victory in 2012.

But when the chips are down and minority leader Nancy Pelosi offloads presidential weight onto House Democrats, the Progressive Caucus rarely shows backbone with cohesive action.