sinew

She became the party’s spine and its sinew, holding together the Democrat’s many warring factions and standing firm at times the more timorous were prepared to back down.

Players who don't have the manager's back might not strain every last sinew when they know his job is hanging by a thread.

“Fox” has the bones of a potboiler but is supported by the sinew of the author’s elegant structure and syntax.

“To have had the opportunity to come back and to really play, discover, and put flesh and blood and sinew and heartbeat into this woman, to really fill her out,” O’Reilly says.

But the Gloucester lock's superb restart take,, external all arched back, strained sinew and single-paw dexterity, early against Exeter bore more than a bit of a resemblance.