Significados de moral backbone em inglês

He ridiculed them for showing some moral backbone and condemning homosexuality.

But don't you stand their nonsense for want of moral backbone.

There never was an author with enough moral backbone to-

How was the moral backbone of our yeomanry to be stiffened save through education?

Pines is a movie with a pronounced moral backbone.

Perhaps such names are too harsh for those who overload the moral backbone of an inexperienced subordinate.

They have furnished the moral backbone and unswerving integrity of many of your great business houses in this city to-day.

It confirmed the verdict we reached on Rosset at Frankfurt: daringly and very classily avant-garde but lacking in historical and moral backbone.

It was a fair guess that he was no hardened mutineer, but had been caught in a net through lack of moral backbone.

The CBC has long had the reputation of being the moral backbone of the Congress and now would be a time to ensure that.

He was also, as his brother Alex, chief executive of the Royal Opera House, put it, the moral backbone of any company he joined.

He had all the qualities of making good, except the moral backbone holding them together, which alone could give him his rightful-ashe thought-pre-eminence.

These struggles develop the moral backbone; and if a boy does not give in, he will find his moral courage increasing with each moral fight.

As to forms, for me they are a show, but for many they are a necessity,- asortof moral backbone without which they might fall.