Over at Twitter, founder Jack Dorsey has similarly specialized in spinelessness.
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It would truly be a shame to eschew that out of spinelessness.
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Save for a few courageous senators, the G.O.P. has melted into spinelessness.
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Harvard's decision to rescind Ms. Manning's invitation is about more than academic spinelessness.
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Ms Warren similarly derided insurance companies, and derided politicians who offered "small ideas and spinelessness".
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That said, there have been jabs implied by, say, the spinelessness of the Good Place Committee.
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If there isn't 100 percent certainty of a conviction, then discretion—some would say spinelessness—argues for settlement.
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Given the spinelessness they've shown in the past, it's a safe bet that Medicare's administrators will immediately capitulate.
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It's an all-purpose knock that they use for spinelessness, stupidity, political correctness and non-O'Reillyian political leanings.
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Because of your ineffectiveness, because of your weakness, your spinelessness, your lack of vision, your inability to fight Obama.
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Standing by idly while Trump runs their party into the ground seems to be the very definition of spinelessness.
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"We're not going to solve the problems we face with small ideas and spinelessness," she said in her opening statement.
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But my guess is that most Republican politicians are spineless rather than sinister — or, more accurately, sinister in their spinelessness.
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Behind her, Jay-Z descended on an elevator, weaving in snatches of "4:44," a confession of fallibility and moral spinelessness.
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It is testament to the spinelessness of the West's current political elite that this explanation was deemed something that could be presented in public.
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All of this, of course, looks very bad for Google, particularly at a time meant to empower the very community being affected by its spinelessness.
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For about an hour, Ms. Minaj — whose album sales were supported by similar packages — listed her gripes: Billboard chart chicanery, Spotify blackballing, record-label spinelessness.
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Worst of all, she sees herself repeating her own mother's mistakes, as the deeply insecure man she married overcompensates for his spinelessness with more empty bravado.
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Unless the Democrats can shed their spinelessness and timidity, they will not energize that crucial youth, female, gay and ethnic horde that is yearning for uncompromising progressivism.
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What is equally stunning is the spinelessness of Republican leaders in standing up for the principles their party has stood for from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Ronald Reagan to both George Bushes.
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In "Hamlet," Polonius's despicable spinelessness is never clearer than when Hamlet gets him to enthusiastically agree that a particular cloud looks like a camel, then not a camel at all, but a weasel.
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This raises the natural question for casual observers, eternally frustrated with the body's seeming spinelessness, as to why Congress is so reticent to check the presidency—especially under a president as capricious as our current commander-in-chief.
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It's too early to tell whether Ryan's spinelessness in service of partisanship will damage American democracy in the long run, but he's one of the few people who might have prevented Trump's election by speaking out publicly against him.
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"If the Democrats take even the House, but certainly both chambers, the Republicans' spinelessness may decline and that's super important," Robert Mickey, a political scientist at the University of Michigan who's studied authoritarianism and democratization in the American South, said.
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"If the Democrats take even the House, but certainly both chambers, the Republicans' spinelessness may decline and that's super important," Robert Mickey, a political scientist at the University of Michigan who's studied authoritarianism and democratization in the American South, told me before the election.
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If the past is any indication, he will quickly be forgiven for his moral spinelessness in this election, his unwillingness to break with Mr. Trump — even to condemn him for questioning the legitimacy of the vote — no matter how grotesque the G.O.P. nominee's behavior becomes.
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You might ultimately disagree with his views on a particular situation or course of action, but Mattis and his kind are the only internal defense we now have against the willful ignorance and undisciplined impulsiveness in the White House, in concert with congressional myopia and spinelessness.
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He's everything Arsenal are about – looking far better on paper than in reality and the relentless flat-track bullying help to divide the fanbase from week to week, just as as his combination of good looks and spinelessness inspire wildly alternating feelings of sexual lust and utter hatred.
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Throughout 2008, Anastasia Baburova worked on the editorial team of the Russian newspaper, Izvestia, and had had dozens of articles published by both Izvestia and Financial News, particularly on finance. In December 2008, she resigned from this post over the political course of the newspaper, which, according to the British weekly newspaper The Economist, may be characterised by "nationalism, spinelessness and cynicism".
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As such, he claimed that tactics designed to end the war, such as pacifism and general strikes, were unnecessary, and that instead the war should be pursued until Germany was defeated. The Bolsheviks quickly responded to Kropotkin's militarism in a bid for political capital. Vladimir Lenin published a 1915 article in The National Pride of the Great Russians, in which he attacked Kropotkin and Russian anarchists en masse for the former's early pro-war sentiment, and denounced Kropotkin and another political enemy, Georgi Plekhanov, as "chauvinists by opportunism or spinelessness". In other speeches and essays, Lenin referred to Kropotkin in the early years of the war as a "bourgeoisie", demoting him in the following months to "petit bourgeoisie".
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While the band has been noted for its use of dissonance, drummer Jamie Saint Merat countered that "dissonance for dissonance’s sake is extremely fatiguing". Given this, Merat said that Vermis uses melody in a "weird and unsettling" way to create "a tangible amount of tension and release". Merat further noted that the band made a conscious decision with Vermis to bring back "a level of unpredictability we've always had in the past" due to the feeling that the previous album, The Destroyers of All, "came out a little too fluid on the whole". According to Merat, Vermis uses the metaphor of invertebrate animal species to explore "the over-arching theme of spinelessness [and] oppression".
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Moscow: Algorythm, p. 423 On 27 January 1995, the Office of the Prosecutor General launched a Novodvorskaya Case in reaction to her interview given to Estonian journalists on 6 April 1994 where she stated that she "cannot imagine how can anyone love a Russian for his laziness, for his lying, for his poverty, for his spinelessness, for his slavery", as well as several publications in Novy Vzglyad and other periodicals.(archived). The Judicial Panel for Criminal Affairs of the Supreme Court of Russia at BusinessPravo.ru - a companies law internet archive, from 23 December 1996 (in Russian)The articles and interview by V. Novodvorskaya that appear in her criminal case at the Democratic Union official website (in Russian)Valeria Novodvorskaya (2009).
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