6 sentences with 'backbone'
Example sentences and phrases with the word backbone and other words derived from it.
• « Fortunately for the Egyptian state, however, the backbone of day-to-day politics was the huge bureaucracy that was composed of the scribal class. »
• « The dynasty itself was fiercely proud of its Greek heritage, with colonies of Greek soldiers as the backbone of the Ptolemaic army. »
• « The backbone of the crusades were the chivalric orders: organisations of knights authorised by the church to conduct wars in the name of Christianity. These orders arose after the First Crusade, originally organised to protect Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. »
• « Newton was the president of the Royal Society, which published Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the forerunner of the academic journals that remain the backbone of scholarship today. »
• « South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1961, but apartheid remained the backbone of the South African legal system, systematically repressing and oppressing the majority black population. »
• « What would Egypt be without that backbone! Did you know that the only food missing from the Pharaohs' table was fish from the Nile? Because the nobles despised what their people ate. »