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Now, this is not about being soft, having no back-bone or letting anyone of the hook.
Bruce Reyes-Chow: Jesus Christ, Michelle Bachmann And Other Lunatics Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011
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Now, this is not about being soft, having no back-bone or letting anyone of the hook.
Bruce Reyes-Chow: Jesus Christ, Michelle Bachmann And Other Lunatics Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011
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Can all Democrats please have the same back-bone & stand up to Lieberman, who has said enough already and has tried his best to eliminate meaningful healthcare reform.
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Now, this is not about being soft, having no back-bone or letting anyone of the hook.
Bruce Reyes-Chow: Jesus Christ, Michelle Bachmann And Other Lunatics Bruce Reyes-Chow 2011
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But, to lead NASA and stand-up to JSC, specifically to ego-maniac (and INCOMPETENT) Cx Program Management crowd ... well, I am just not sure if he has the technical know-how and the back-bone to stand-up to JSC.
Charles Bolden Nominated for NASA Administrator by President Obama - NASA Watch 2009
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After that they placed the banderillos in the bull, in the shoulders, on each side of the back-bone, two at a time.
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When he had paid off the Indians and seen them depart, a stormy darkness was falling, and he was left alone, a thousand feet above timber line, on the back-bone of a mountain.
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Also, that I was born with a back-bone of pride that would not melt.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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It was after I had made my locations on Goldstead – and didn't know what a treasure-pot that that trip creek was going to prove – that I made that trip east over the Rockies, angling across to the Great Up North there the Rockies are something more than a back-bone.
The Night-Born 2010
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Grow a freaking back-bone and do the exact same thing, Dems!
Think Progress » Brown wins Massachusetts special election; Coakley concedes. 2010
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