(n.) Forward to meet danger; venturesome; daring; not timorous or shrinking from risk; brave; courageous.
(n.) Exhibiting or requiring spirit and contempt of danger; planned with courage; daring; vigorous.
(n.) In a bad sense, too forward; taking undue liberties; over assuming or confident; lacking proper modesty or restraint; rude; impudent.
(n.) Somewhat overstepping usual bounds, or conventional rules, as in art, literature, etc.; taking liberties in composition or expression; as, the figures of an author are bold.
(n.) Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief.
(n.) Steep; abrupt; prominent.
(v. t.) To make bold or daring.
(v. i.) To be or become bold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(2) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
(3) And that is why we have taken bold action at home – by making historic investments in renewable energy; by putting our people to work increasing efficiency in our homes and buildings; and by pursuing comprehensive legislation to transform to a clean energy economy.
(4) No doubt it was intended as a bold and graphic way of presenting the Iranian nuclear threat, but much of the initial response – on Twitter, at least – was ridicule.
(5) Noonan was also bold in his projection for Irish economic growth by 3.9% for 2015, which is higher than the original 2.7% growth predicted back in April this year.
(6) He Peirong has been at the forefront of a bold and innovative campaign by Chinese activists to free Chen and his family from their lengthy captivity.
(7) But Di Matteo has made bold selections before, not least when he asked Ramires to play on the left of midfield against Barcelona in an attempt to nullify the threat posed by the marauding Daniel Alves down the flank.
(8) But Sanders, 73, rejected the idea his appeal is limited to voters on the left, boldly predicting on Wednesday that his message would appeal to both fellow independents and Republicans.
(9) Read more The agreement earned a mixed initial reception, with the UN hailing a “bold” and “groundbreaking” outcome even as other delegates complained of “a terrible precedent” and lack of moral leadership.
(10) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(11) Previously a cover-up and reworking of a tattoo beneath, when she was performing across the UK with Girls Aloud in February , you could see the bold work in progress poking above her backless stage costumes.
(12) Blowing up the flats will on the one hand "serve as an unforgettable statement of how Glasgow is confidently embracing the future and changing for the better", while on the other it will "serve as a respectful recognition and celebration of the role the Red Road flats have played in shaping the lives of thousands of city families for whom these flats have simply been home … " According to David Zolkwer, who as the games' artistic director may have had the idea, the demolition will be "a bold and confident statement that says: 'Bring on the future'."
(13) But the equaliser was fair reward for the best move of the game and for Strachan’s own boldness in putting a player on to push back Séamus Coleman on Ireland’s right.
(14) Carney will have to defend his bold pledge to peg UK interest rates to their current record low of 7% until unemployment rate has dropped to 7%, sometime in 2016 by the Bank's reckoning.
(15) But US security experts criticised the administration for appearing to time its intervention to suit conflicting agendas of the Asean and Paris summits rather than more boldly assert the principle of freedom of navigation.
(16) Charlotte Emma Aitchison suits the bold, bratty music she makes.
(17) Advising renegotiation was "a bold recommendation" but showed the depth of backbench feeling on the issue, he added: "This is a joint committee of the Lords and the Commons, with a coalition government majority, and it's a unanimous report."
(18) The only Newcastle player that regularly took initiatives in the first half was Andros Townsend but he lacked the accuracy to make good on bold intentions.
(19) In 2007 a fresh-faced MP spent two days at the home of a Muslim family in Birmingham and then wrote boldly of how it wasn’t possible to “bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them”; “you can’t even start to talk about a truly integrated society while people are suffering racist … abuse … on a daily basis”.
(20) After meeting the summit host, the president of the Philippines, Obama said the US and Manila had agreed on the need for “bold steps to lower tensions, including pledging to halt reclamation, new construction and militarisation of disputed islands in the South China Sea”.
Bolden
Definition:
(v. t.) To make bold; to encourage; to embolden.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.13pm BST That didn't take long: Bolden is already talking about the need to meet President Obama's budget requests i n order to keep NASA healthy.
(2) It is absolutely critical that we understand Earth’s environment, because this is the only place we have to live,” Bolden said.
(3) Updated at 2.38pm BST 2.15pm BST Bolden is asked whether Mars 1 would succeed in its mission to colonize the planet by 2023?
(4) Updated at 3.33pm BST 2.08pm BST General Bolden is speaking - you can watch on CSPAN here .
(5) Future projects include biopics of Olympic athlete Jesse Owens and jazz cornettist Buddy Bolden.
(6) 3.01pm BST The justification for the asteroid mission Grunsfeld has just described seems to contradict the version Nasa director Bolden gave last month, when details of the mission first emerged.
(7) Speaking at the Humans to Mars conference in Washington last month, Nasa chief Charles Bolden laid out a vision for bringing the US space programme out of its first stage, exploration, and into pioneering, even homesteading.
(8) In his statement, Nasa administrator Bolden said: “SpaceX has demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in its first six cargo resupply missions to the station, and we know they can replicate that success.
(9) We can’t go anywhere if the Kennedy space center goes underwater, and we don’t know it,” Bolden said.
(10) We will understand the failure and move forward.” In his statement, Bolden said Nasa would “keep pushing the envelope as we move into space”.
(11) This morning the director of NASA, Gen. Charles Bolden, will discuss the possibility of a manned mission to Mars.
(12) Charles Bolden, the former shuttle astronaut appointed by Obama to lead Nasa this year, disagrees with the critics, among them four of the 12 men to have walked on the moon.
(13) "We are developing a first-ever mission to identify, capture and relocate an asteroid," Nasa administrator Charles Bolden said.
(14) Curiosity is running experiments that could enable a manned mission to Mars, Bolden says.
(15) Commercial crew means Nasa "is out of the business of operating spacecraft into low-Earth orbit," Bolden says.
(16) 3.19pm BST National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Charles Bolden delivers remarks at the opening of the "Human 2 Mars Summit" at George Washington University in Washington, DC, May 6, 2013.
(17) Last month Bolden said the mission would lead to scientific discoveries and help protect Earth: "This mission represents an unprecedented technological feat that will lead to new scientific discoveries and technological capabilities and help protect our home planet," he said .
(18) 2.22pm BST Bolden takes a question about politics: What if the next administration cuts Nasa funding?
(19) "The truth is that we were not on a path to get back to the moon's surface," said Charles Bolden, the new Nasa administrator.
(20) But, and there is a but, flag on the play.... Bolden pushes a Chargers out of bounds, in an illegal way.