Sentence examples for that backbone of from inspiring English sources

• James said he admired Derek Jeter — "that backbone" of his beloved Yankees.

As Jed Perl, an American art critic, put it in The New Republic, "Chronology, that backbone of the historical sense, has been collapsed into some kind of postmodern time warp".

A more immediate problem is that it's not clear that the backbone of the currency can withstand the increased use that going mainstream would take.

The 1D NMR spectroscopic data (Table 1) suggested that the backbone of 2 was identical to that of 1.

Nevertheless, Jon Cruddas, the Labour deputy leadership candidate, described the results as a wake-up call, and warned that the backbone of the party, its councillor base, was withering.

He thinks about it some more and adds: "For God's sake, don't make that the backbone of your article".

German industrial orders tumbled in June, data released this week showed, providing strong evidence that the backbone of the euro area's economy is buckling.

Density functional theory calculations indicate that the backbone of the 1,6-NDP-polymers is rather planar.

With little innovation in the small-business space, the fact of the matter is that the backbone of America is starting to break.

Evidence suggests that the backbone of every African economy is small and medium-size business, rather than large domestic businesses, multinationals or government organizations.

"I believe that the people that was the backbone of this country, that worked hard in this country — they got left behind," Calloway said.