Sentence examples for stiff backbone from inspiring English sources

Hannah Marshall has always believed in a streamlined look with a stiff backbone of style.

She also had a stiff backbone, barely conceding to the changing times.

A foldamer has been designed with a conformationally stiff backbone that is facially amphiphilic.

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".

In that bastion of traditional femininity, where visions of hoop skirts still dance in girls' heads, the women also develop stiff backbones.

"If you studied a person long enough, they gave away their whole life story," writes Fowler, whose well-observed cowboys and cattle farmers have colorful quirks and stiff backbones.

His example suggests that America may be saved from fiscal ruin, not by politicians who trim their sails at every opportunity, but by lawmakers with stiff backbones and unwavering convictions.

Pasquinelli et al. [52] have explored the interface between SWNTs and polymer chains with semi-flexible and stiff backbones via MD simulations.

The formation of spherulites mesoscopically reveals the entire molecule motion and assembly through a pathway of conventional crystalline polymers and the crystallization of PCL side chains in a space constituted by stiff backbones of poly styrene-alt-maleimide) poly styrene-alt-maleimidecopoly styrene-alt-maleimided character which has been observed in some conventional block coplusmersoft

It is often said that women sensitize their male heroes; but they are far more likely to push the conventions by giving their female characters stiffer backbones.

Long has used Tadros to study the evolution of backbones, testing the idea that by making ancient fish stiffer, backbones made them faster and hence better at collecting food or evading predators.