"She's tough, she's got backbone, and I don't think she can be pushed around".
This is a book with backbone, written with tough, haunting eloquence by an author determined to capture the immediacy of her heroine's wartime odyssey.
If she didn't, the logic goes, she would be so concerned about potential litigation that she might not have the backbone to make tough charging decisions, especially against powerful defendants like organized-crime bosses or cops.
We will skip past the cliché about content's royal status, but suffice it to say that strong entertainment brands — the backbone of traditional media companies — are tough to build, tough to rub out and tough to compete against.
"But vastly more important than being nice is that he be a tough-minded realist, with a backbone of steel.
But you did need serious analyses and one helluva backbone to make smart, tough decisions on infrastructure, relocation and rebuilding.
America has always found strong partners in London, leaders of good judgment and blunt counsel and backbone when times are tough.
"The problem is, we have not had someone in the White House who has had the backbone to make these tough decisions that have to be made".
"He's got such a backbone and he's so tough and he knows how to make shit happen, and he's not afraid to take on opponents," Sharry said.
All the homegrown talent that is the backbone of La Liga, one of the toughest national leagues in the world, came through in the rain in Vienna.
