Only diplomats with backbone need apply.
A free society also requires a government with backbone.
If you're looking for a character with backbone, Finch has it in spades.
And what might have been a lurid, discouraging story winds up with backbone and hope.
A new fictional heroine is needed: a woman with backbone, to inspire us in a time of global recession.
Seghesio's 2005 Zinfandel from Astor Wines fits Lorelai to a tee: fruit-jammy and fizzy, but with backbone and bite.
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.
The Amazons and the Netflixes of this world are changing the medium... female parts with backbone and not a sexualised role, but more headstrong".
Lila is Bovary with backbone: intelligent, fearless, fighting to escape a patriarchal world that bars her from any education beyond primary school.
"The real question is: do Democrats stand up with backbone for long-time progressive principles or do they treat Donald Trump like a normal president, which he's not, and compromise their principles?" said Green.
Your connection of nationalism to neoconservative ideology falls flat to me, and seems intended to tarnish the reputation of people who believe in an idealistic foreign policy with backbone.
