Significados de very backbone en inglés

That the agricultural sector, with 1 million jobs, is the very backbone of our country?

They were the very backbone of our production, as shown in the following startling figures:

If he lacks self-control, the very backbone, pith, and nerve of character are lacking also.

I'll be bound you're the best fellow in the world, the very backbone of the country.

Frank is Greystock to the very backbone.

The gist of his argument was to show that audacity in Reform was the very backbone of Conservatism.

Alek, the very backbone of the resistance, is dead, shot in his apartment the day after the bombing.

The Iraqi police and the army, trained and armed by the Americans-thevery backbone of the new Iraqi state-meltedaway.

They are the very backbone of the country; we can ill afford to lose them, with their cheery, bluff manners and good-hearted natures.

His eyes glanced round with an indomitable expression of scorn and indignation, which, as Diccon whispered, he could have felt to his very backbone.

Horsemen be the very backbones of armies in the field.

"The inventor is the very backbone of the industrial life of the world."

'Suffolk to the very backbone!'