Sentence examples for sturdy backbone from inspiring English sources

Mr Pooter thought he deserved respect as the sturdy backbone of the British way of life.

For Philip Roth, Bellow stands with William Faulkner as "the sturdy backbone of 20th-century American literature", with a prose style "as rich and roiling as Melville's".

We need to find, support and vote for bold, truly Progressive Democrats with sturdy backbones and spotless ethics.

To those who fear that Carlos Dunga's determination to give Brazil a sturdier backbone, a more pragmatic order, the message is have patience.

A onetime child actress — she played Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon's "Victorious" and now on the spinoff "Sam & Cat" — she uses the "Glee"/"Idol" template as a jumping-off point to make modern pop-R&B with a sturdy vintage backbone.

She uses the "Glee"/"Idol" template as a jumping-off point to make modern pop-R&B with a sturdy vintage backbone".

In contrast, one of the extinct groups of kangaroos in the study the sthenurines, which lived 100,000 years ago lacked many of the locomotory features of their modern counterparts, including a flexible backbone, a sturdy tail, and forelimbs capable of supporting their body weight.

Mr. Bowen's simple but sturdy songs provide a fine emotional backbone for Mr. Bell's wittily self-mocking book.

In 1921 he founded a subsidiary in Teterboro, New Jersey, the "Atlantic Aircraft Factory" and in the next 10 years, Fokker's sturdy, high-wing workhorses became the backbone of a new airline industry in the United States and abroad — "the equivalent of today's Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas and Airbus combined," according to the Dutch aviation historian Wim Kroese.

A ghost-like, intermittently vacant backbone often masks a sturdy interior in some pieces, revealing what looks like bars or metal.

Using a sturdy pair of kitchen shears, remove the backbone from the body.