backbone

Mutual understanding is the main backbone of every happy relationship.

A steely look of anger flared in my mother__ eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

She knows her timing, always knows. The time to strike or the time to starve. Her eyes as a clock, she watches she waits she learns, and in the second she blinks, she changes her mind just like that.

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

You, sir, are not only a selfish asshole, but you're a coward. You didn't have the balls to stand and fight for what was yours, instead you chose to flee and force others into a fight that wasn't even theirs to begin with.