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On the other hand, the people protesting in the streets in Israel against this judicial overhaul, this is really the backbone of the Israeli economy. – Amir Tibon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
On the one hand, he’s got a coalition that is based purely on Israel’s right wing, ultra-religious, far-right nationalistic political elements, on the other hand, the people protesting in the streets in Israel against this judicial overhaul, this is really the backbone of the Israeli economy. – Amir Tibon	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Saving places like this from abandonment is a duty of all of us, because these old villages are the backbone of our wonderful country. – Monica Gillocchi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The military obviously has gained the most and so has the most to lose from a deal like this, but also, Sisi at the end of the day needs to keep the backbone of his regime united behind him. – Timothy Kaldas	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This balloon, by the way, had a lot of American parts in it. We know that the hypersonic missile that went around the world with precision was built on the backbone of American technology. – Mike McCaul	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Our Department of Education looked at that and said: In Florida, we do education not indoctrination, and so that runs afoul of our standards, we were just the only ones that had the backbone to stand up and do it – because they call you names and they demagogue you when you do it. – Ron DeSantis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
He should be soundly defeated, it should start in the Republican Party - grow a backbone ! Stand up to this guy ! And heaven forbid if he gets the nomination, he needs to be defeated roundly and sent back to Mar-a-Lago. – Hillary Clinton	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I was very disappointed there wasn’t one mention of starting to refocus and strategically target persons that are carrying guns illegally, especially previously convicted felons and persons on probation or parole, as that should be the backbone of any anti-violence program in Philadelphia, but since he’s taken office, we’ve seen a significant reduction in prosecutions in general and for persons carrying guns illegally. I think that’s counterproductive for a time when the city of Philadelphia is setting records for gun-related homicides and shootings. – Joe Sullivan	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
It's a real tough situation, I'm just trying to show the kids that they do have us as their backbone and a support system, we always provide, whether there is an incident or no incident. – Carlos Hernandez	Found on CNN 1 year ago
These kinds of mass shootings rarely happen in other parts of the world, but they have mental health problems. They have people who are lost... Why are we willing to let this happen ? Where, in God's name, is our backbone ? It's time to turn this pain into action. – President Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's been a really tough day, today, and a tough few days for us here at CNN, so the truth is that we're all heartbroken because we lost our leader here. We lost a man who was the backbone, the glue and the spirit of this company, the man who I personally credit with change in my life, the man who believed in me when nobody else did. He is the reason that you have a gay, Black man with two hours of primetime, a show with my name on it, the only anchor of color in primetime on cable news, think about that. You want to talk about diversity? Here it is. – Don Lemon	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The members of our military are the solid steel backbone of this nation, ready to fly into danger at a moment's notice to keep our country and the American people safe as well as our allies. – Beau Biden	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is a terrible situation for our children. It's a terrible situation for working families in Chicago, and I pray that the mayor stands up, have some backbone and make it unequivocal that our kids will be in the best place- in a classroom. – Willie Preston	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He brought high standards, manuel was the backbone through at least two or three generations of leadership that enabled CNN to become as respected for its digital journalism as it was for its television news. – Mitch Gelman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Chinese youth of the new era should set the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as their mission, strengthen their ambition, backbone and confidence of being a Chinese...and not let down the expectations of the party and the people. – New Era.Chinese	Found on CNN 2 years ago
PMI intends to operate Vectura as an autonomous business unit that will form the backbone of its inhaled therapeutics business. – Philip Morris	Found on Reuters 2 years ago
(c)(p)-IN MY BOOK-DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSIONS-I WROTE ABOUT THE CRUCIAL ROLE WHICH NURSES PLAY IN THE EDUCATION AND CLINICAL ROTATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND YOUNG DOCTORS. THIS IS SOMETHING KNOWN IN MEDICAL CIRCLES, BUT NEVER TALKED ABOUT. I WILL SPEAK IT HERE. NURSES WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF-ICU-PICU-ER-OR-OBGYN-RADIOLOGY, AND NICU- ARE SOME OF THE BEST OF THE BEST I HAVE WORKED WITH OVER MY 53 YEARS TO DATE.I FEEL HONORED TO HAVE KNOWN AND WORKED WITH MANY OF THEM- MOST OF WHOM WERE/ARE WOMEN.I ALSO LEARNED A LOT. – RAS CARDO REGGAE**	added by jahmantafari1 2 years ago
No business should have to tolerate this kind of brazen crime. Local businesses are the backbone of our community, these crimes are profitable because of the vast criminalnetworkbehind them, which our office is dismantling. – Rachel Marshall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Coronaviruses — you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily, spike protein drives a lot of what happen with coronavirus, in zoonotic risk. So you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we work a lot with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this. Insert into the backbone of another virus and do some work in the lab. So you can get more predictive when you find a sequence. You’ve got this diversity. Now the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but let’s insert some of these other things and get a better vaccine. – Vincent Racaniello	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’ve been in my corner times when I didn’t think I’d be in this position, they are the backbone of who I am. – Barbara Kaprielian	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This plan is not about rebuilding America’s backbone.Less than 6% of this massive proposal goes to roads and bridges, it would spend more money just on electric cars than on America’s roads, bridges, ports, airports, and waterways combined. – Mitch McConnell	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I see Trump as a fighter for the people that actually work and put the backbone into this country, his legacy will be remembered by me as a great man that took on the corruption in this country. – Will Williams	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
This is about people, about our people, who are the backbone of our culture, and it's people from all different walks of life and all different types of restaurants and businesses, and we need those things. That is what makes this country great, is those people and that diversity. – Aaron Rodgers	Found on CNN 3 years ago
She was like my Wonder Woman, she was my backbone, and she was like my second mother even though we are only four years apart. – Zelene Blancas	Found on CNN 3 years ago

On the other hand, the people protesting in the streets in Israel against this judicial overhaul, this is really the backbone of the Israeli economy.

– Amir Tibon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

On the one hand, he’s got a coalition that is based purely on Israel’s right wing, ultra-religious, far-right nationalistic political elements, on the other hand, the people protesting in the streets in Israel against this judicial overhaul, this is really the backbone of the Israeli economy.

– Amir Tibon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Saving places like this from abandonment is a duty of all of us, because these old villages are the backbone of our wonderful country.

– Monica Gillocchi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The military obviously has gained the most and so has the most to lose from a deal like this, but also, Sisi at the end of the day needs to keep the backbone of his regime united behind him.

– Timothy Kaldas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This balloon, by the way, had a lot of American parts in it. We know that the hypersonic missile that went around the world with precision was built on the backbone of American technology.

– Mike McCaul

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our Department of Education looked at that and said: In Florida, we do education not indoctrination, and so that runs afoul of our standards, we were just the only ones that had the backbone to stand up and do it – because they call you names and they demagogue you when you do it.

– Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He should be soundly defeated, it should start in the Republican Party - grow a backbone ! Stand up to this guy ! And heaven forbid if he gets the nomination, he needs to be defeated roundly and sent back to Mar-a-Lago.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I was very disappointed there wasn’t one mention of starting to refocus and strategically target persons that are carrying guns illegally, especially previously convicted felons and persons on probation or parole, as that should be the backbone of any anti-violence program in Philadelphia, but since he’s taken office, we’ve seen a significant reduction in prosecutions in general and for persons carrying guns illegally. I think that’s counterproductive for a time when the city of Philadelphia is setting records for gun-related homicides and shootings.

– Joe Sullivan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It's a real tough situation, I'm just trying to show the kids that they do have us as their backbone and a support system, we always provide, whether there is an incident or no incident.

– Carlos Hernandez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These kinds of mass shootings rarely happen in other parts of the world, but they have mental health problems. They have people who are lost... Why are we willing to let this happen ? Where, in God's name, is our backbone ? It's time to turn this pain into action.

– President Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's been a really tough day, today, and a tough few days for us here at CNN, so the truth is that we're all heartbroken because we lost our leader here. We lost a man who was the backbone, the glue and the spirit of this company, the man who I personally credit with change in my life, the man who believed in me when nobody else did. He is the reason that you have a gay, Black man with two hours of primetime, a show with my name on it, the only anchor of color in primetime on cable news, think about that. You want to talk about diversity? Here it is.

– Don Lemon

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The members of our military are the solid steel backbone of this nation, ready to fly into danger at a moment's notice to keep our country and the American people safe as well as our allies.

– Beau Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a terrible situation for our children. It's a terrible situation for working families in Chicago, and I pray that the mayor stands up, have some backbone and make it unequivocal that our kids will be in the best place- in a classroom.

– Willie Preston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He brought high standards, manuel was the backbone through at least two or three generations of leadership that enabled CNN to become as respected for its digital journalism as it was for its television news.

– Mitch Gelman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Chinese youth of the new era should set the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as their mission, strengthen their ambition, backbone and confidence of being a Chinese...and not let down the expectations of the party and the people.

– New Era.Chinese

Found on CNN
2 years ago

PMI intends to operate Vectura as an autonomous business unit that will form the backbone of its inhaled therapeutics business.

– Philip Morris

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

**(c)(p)-IN MY BOOK-DIAGNOSTIC DISCUSSIONS-I WROTE ABOUT THE CRUCIAL ROLE WHICH NURSES PLAY IN THE EDUCATION AND CLINICAL ROTATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS AND YOUNG DOCTORS. THIS IS SOMETHING KNOWN IN MEDICAL CIRCLES, BUT NEVER TALKED ABOUT. I WILL SPEAK IT HERE. NURSES WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF-ICU-PICU-ER-OR-OBGYN-RADIOLOGY, AND NICU- ARE SOME OF THE BEST OF THE BEST I HAVE WORKED WITH OVER MY 53 YEARS TO DATE.I FEEL HONORED TO HAVE KNOWN AND WORKED WITH MANY OF THEM- MOST OF WHOM WERE/ARE WOMEN.I ALSO LEARNED A LOT.

– RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

No business should have to tolerate this kind of brazen crime. Local businesses are the backbone of our community, these crimes are profitable because of the vast criminalnetworkbehind them, which our office is dismantling.

– Rachel Marshall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Coronaviruses — you can manipulate them in the lab pretty easily, spike protein drives a lot of what happen with coronavirus, in zoonotic risk. So you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we work a lot with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this. Insert into the backbone of another virus and do some work in the lab. So you can get more predictive when you find a sequence. You’ve got this diversity. Now the logical progression for vaccines is, if you are going to develop a vaccine for SARS, people are going to use pandemic SARS, but let’s insert some of these other things and get a better vaccine.

– Vincent Racaniello

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’ve been in my corner times when I didn’t think I’d be in this position, they are the backbone of who I am.

– Barbara Kaprielian

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This plan is not about rebuilding America’s backbone.Less than 6% of this massive proposal goes to roads and bridges, it would spend more money just on electric cars than on America’s roads, bridges, ports, airports, and waterways combined.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

I see Trump as a fighter for the people that actually work and put the backbone into this country, his legacy will be remembered by me as a great man that took on the corruption in this country.

– Will Williams

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

This is about people, about our people, who are the backbone of our culture, and it's people from all different walks of life and all different types of restaurants and businesses, and we need those things. That is what makes this country great, is those people and that diversity.

– Aaron Rodgers

Found on CNN
3 years ago

She was like my Wonder Woman, she was my backbone, and she was like my second mother even though we are only four years apart.

– Zelene Blancas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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