John Lewis

We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out.

American Politician

Jim Hunt

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses.

Michael Patrick King

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

American Writer

Hiro Murai

I think to truly not know what to expect out of the story - to create a world where nothing is guaranteed - is sort of the backbone of 'Atlanta.

American Director

Sherry Argov

Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.

Kobe Bryant

My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

American Basketball Player

Manisha Koirala

Truth of life is that in difficult times, my family was my backbone.

Nepalese Actress

Trish Regan

In life, you need some backbone. You need to stand for something.

American Journalist

Statik Selektah

Sampling is very important for me. It's the backbone of hip-hop.

American Producer

Hima Das

My biggest support and backbone have been my friends.

Indian Athlete

Refers to the actual bones within the body, often mentioned in medical or injury contexts.

Physical Structure

Used to talk about the inner structure, not external back muscles or skin.

Not The Surface

In tech and business, 'backbone' is a metaphor for the main support system of a network.

Technical Metaphor

This definition implies something is critically important within a larger context or system.

Systemic Importance

Used to praise someone's moral strength or criticize their lack of it in challenging situations.

Metaphoric Strength

Implies a judgment of character; people are respected for 'having a backbone'.

Character Judgment

 and then, as importantly, can we align the resources to be able to address them? Medical schools, nursing schools, all sorts of health professional education programs can help by training the next generation of upstreamists. We can also make sure that these schools certify a backbone of the upstream approach,

What makes us get sick?...

 That's what we call a chemical reaction, when atoms exchange partners and make new molecules. The backbone of epinephrine is made mostly of carbon atoms, and that's common. Carbon is life's favorite structural building material, because it makes a good number of handshakes

A crash course in...

 You can prove it just as easily. You just need to look at your bellybutton that you share with other placental mammals, or your backbone that you share with other vertebrates, or your DNA that you share with all other life on earth. Those traits didn't pop up in humans.

Four billion years of...

 that we can actually discriminate, capture and discriminate, the mammoth from the non-mammoth DNA, and with the advances in high-throughput sequencing, we can actually pull out and bioinformatically re-jig all these small mammoth fragments and place them onto a backbone

Hendrik Poinar: Bring...

 thought it would be very nice to have it as a backbone of a university planning the campus design has two main access learning and living and from this to access the factor pattern diminishes the heart of the campus is the wisdom Center

The role of fractals...

 no wonder they call it namibia namibian place of know people it's the oldest desert in the world it's a land of ancient rock that spilled out of the earth over the ages hardening to become the backbone of a country that is the

Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...

 which are built out of both amino acids and sugars. In mucin, long chains of sugars are attached to specific amino acids in the protein backbone. The hydrophilic sugar chains help mucin dissolve in your body's watery fluids.

How mucus keeps us...

 they said, let's create a new Internet backbone, because we can't be dependent on this other one. And so all of a sudden, what do you have? You have a new bipolar world in which cyber-internationalism, our belief,

How fear drives American...

 the ability to gulp air from the water surface their fleshy fins became wait supporting legs and 375 million years ago a few of these backbone creatures followed the insects onto the land they were

Explaining the Tree of...

 to get a four beat system. This is the recognizable backbone of many genres popular around the world, from rock, country, and jazz,

Backbone