Sentence examples for the backbone to stand up from inspiring English sources

"How can you think a community organizer has the backbone to stand up for America?" "Why do you disparage community organizers?

They are a growing army and they are will take the side of anyone who has the backbone to stand up for them.

In Vienna, Die Presse wrote that after taking an initial position defending the mosque, "he doesn't have the backbone to stand up for it".

"What it comes down to is who will have the backbone to stand up to the excesses coming out of the Obama administration and Congress," he said.

Nothing short of the public's faith in its legal system hangs in the balance, and the state's voters are waiting to see which politicians have the backbone to stand up for what is right.

And Mr. Gore again used his economic policies -- in this case his Social Security plan -- to suggest that he would have the backbone to stand up to special interests while Mr. Bush would not.

Its time to find a President who is strong on economics, strong on social issues, and has the ideological backbone to stand up for his beliefs and fulfill their dream of being real policies.

The song celebrates Papp's feisty spirit and notes approvingly that he was one of the few New Yorkers with enough backbone to stand up to the city's imperial parks commissioner Robert Moses.

Macron operates without a strong political base on the left or the right, and when, as is bound to happen, his policy proposals provoke demonstrations in the streets, he will somehow have to find more backbone to stand up for reform than any previous French President has found.

It's time for someone with a backbone to stand up and do what needs to be done".

A left which – or so runs the line – is too complacent, too cosmopolitan, too secular and too lacking in an ideological backbone to stand up for Israel's interests.