Sentences with phrase «little backbone»

On the other hand, if your alcoholic, jobless, once - bankrupt brother wants you to co-sign a car loan so he can replace the one the police impounded, a little backbone may be in order!

I'm frustrated that books with little backbone but a catchy title or idea can sell tens of thousands of copies, mostly based on the author's platform.

Just the fact that they bring in a super-secret surprise witness seems to indicate that this is the tactic they'll take — but because the film doesn't trust its audience even a little, Josie's virtue is never in question and the proof of her violation is finally the catalyst for the fence - sitters to grow a little backbone.

Show a little backbone, why don't you?

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The genuine silvertip badger bristles feel downy on the skin, yet retain a great backbone, working up a lather is no problem and the brush needs very little (if any) breaking in.

It's so vibrant and I like that you used quinoa as it adds a little nutritional backbone - Jessica

But while focusing on getting the business up and running, many give little thought to the backbone of the successful partnership: the franchise agreement.

In the case of its cod, Little says while half of the fish ends up at white tablecloth restaurants, the other half is low - value byproducts, including heads, collars, guts, backbones and livers.

Now we employ timid, scared and pityful little male (presumably, not that you would know) children with hardly a backbone between the lot of them.

Aaron had been wanting to visit Devil's Backbone Brewery for years, and we finally made it happen with two of our best friends and their little one.

In fact, the invasion of Iraq was nothing more than a cynical exploitation of post 9/11 blood lust, waged by an administration looking for an easy win to heighten its popularity, with little congressional opposition due to a lack of backbone, not corruption.

Amazing, he actually manages to restrain his inclinations for a little over a half hour in order to allow for the high concept backbone of the plot, but after this, he tears the lid off and lets it rip for all its worth.

This lack of backbone is combined with an absence of any real story in Little Man.

My theory is that people don't read his books for the rather rudimentary, step - by - step, point - to - point thriller elements that form the backbone of the story so much as for learning a little bits of history, philosophy, and even fantasy elements that reside above the surface, many of them expounded upon at length in between the plot points.

The little skulls and backbones show up best.

You can check out the video below which showcases Ganondorf kicking noses in, Little Mac punching apart rib cages, jaws, and backbones, and Captain Falcon thoroughly ruining someone's day.

A quiet, shy little guy who doesn't ever get much appreciation, yet is the backbone of everything us designer types create.

Little scraps of ingenuity like this might one day link together with a backbone of grand technological advancement to ensure that our civilization passes through the climate - energy - population bottleneck unscathed and with an economy that is still growing (sustainably).

And Killian then says we can have a «technology backbone», so undermines his own position a little, and is just taking an educated stab at what he thinks would be sustainable.

This makes me a little annoyed for a book of this dimension, it has all the content needed to convince most people of the accuracy of the corruption revealed here, but it does not provide the reader with sufficient backbone to blow the whistle loud enough that most people will endorse the whole scam of Human Related Climate Change.

Many of these star recruits do little in the way of undergraduate teaching at all which in Austrlia is the backbone of our university system.

There's a video on how to use the site, because things can get a little complex, particularly when the backbone, so to speak, of the enterprise is the almost Borgesian taxonomy that researchers have been working on ever since Linneaus.

The real - time buying and selling of inventory across a wide array of new platforms results in little visibility into who's buying what — ultimately adding stress to an already flawed backbone.