Guts, sinew, spleen, backbone, heart: frankly, given their depleted physique it is a miracle England's players can even drag themselves off the team bus.
His head snapped around to see grey fur moving fast, and the dog in pursuit, the end to which sinew and nerve and tissue had always been building.
George Osborne strained every sinew to demonstrate both that there would be no complacency in his approach, and that his plan must be allowed to continue.
We can do our utmost to imagine what war and invasion mean, but we have only the imagination to help us; they have the real thing burning into their consciousness the necessity of straining every sinew to put an end to it.
Till then, our industry should bend every sinew to keep govenments at bay, for a simple reason summed up by H.L. Mencken in fewer than ten words.
The tired old firm, once a sinew of empire, was suffering from woeful industrial relations workers not only went on strike regularly, but on any given day 7% of them were missing and decades of low investment.
SPACE technology has been a sinew of military power ever since the Soviet Union shocked America into the space race when it launched Sputnik 1 into orbit 51 years ago.
Exxon strained every sinew to preserve gorillas' habitat and compensate displaced villagers.
