(n.) That quality of mind which enables one to encounter danger and difficulties with firmness, or without fear, or fainting of heart; valor; boldness; resolution.
Example Sentences:
(1) I know I have the courage to deal with all the sniping but you worry about the effects on your family."
(2) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
(3) He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing about what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming.
(4) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
(5) This was a courageous move in a society where women were confined to purdah.
(6) The woman said it took her until the mid-1990s to pluck up the courage to report the abuse to Jersey's children's services department – and that her allegations were not taken seriously enough.
(7) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
(8) After Japanese troops invaded the Chinese city of Nanking (now Nanjing) in 1937, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, Hirohito said he was "deeply satisfied" by the troops' courage in quickly seizing the city.
(9) And with that courage, we can stand together for good jobs and just wages.
(10) Honest journalism and the courageous whistleblowers who denounce human rights violations or attempts against state sovereignty deserve to be protected.
(11) These inspiring and courageous women are up against a highly resourced state that looks after its own.
(12) Congratulating Mr Rabin and Mr Arafat on having the courage to change, a Clintonite speciality, he went on: 'Above all, let us dedicate ourselves to your region's next generation.
(13) Alicia deserves praise for courageously standing up to Trump’s attacks.
(14) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(15) They’re losing fear and they’re gaining courage, especially from the military positions he’s taken.
(16) They had announced Thursday that "as a result of our public appeal for help, a courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance needed to properly bury the deceased."
(17) Essential traits of this personality are an independent mind capable of liberating itself from dogmatic tenets universally accepted by the scientific community; the capacity and courage to look at things from a new angle; powers of combination, intuition and imagination; feu sacré and perseverance--in short, intellectual as well as moral qualities.
(18) Cubism as practised by Picasso and Braque they thought courageous, up to a point, but misguided.
(19) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(20) It cannot be right that anyone who has found the courage to escape their abusive or violent partner should be subjected to the stress and torment of being confronted and interrogated by them in any court.” Research by charity Women’s Aid suggests a quarter of women in family court proceedings have been cross-examined by an abusive former partner.
Undaunted
Definition:
(a.) Not daunted; not subdued or depressed by fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(2) He is undaunted by their scale, and realistic about their shortcomings.
(3) She was undaunted by all the stuff that would be against a woman coming into a field at that level.
(4) Restaurateur Arkady Novikov was similarly undaunted: "I do not think much about these sanctions.
(5) They scramble quickly back to the feet, looking chastening but not undaunted - which is just as well because if they do not finish today's stage all their previous exertions will have been for nothing, like being expelled from college on the eve of graduation day.
(6) The Champions League is an extremely difficult competition but we are on the right track.” The Serie A leaders were undaunted by the pulsating atmosphere created by 70,000 Dortmund fans inside the Westfalenstadion, silencing the raucous home crowd early on when Tevez, who scored in the first leg, was left with far too much space 25 metres out and unleashed an unstoppable shot into the top corner.
(7) Asst Ch Con Roger Bannister said in a statement: “This man is not the only individual being investigated by Operation Enamel and our determination to bring others to justice is undaunted.” Saunders overruled the lead counsel, Eleanor Laws QC, who had recommended that Janner should be charged.
(8) Both the public and researchers also seem undaunted by the cost.
(9) Undaunted by unpopularity, though he was never to make much money until he and Jasper Johns began to decorate the windows of Bonwit Teller and Tiffany under a joint pseudonym in the mid 50s, Rauschenberg pressed on with theatre designs for another Black Mountain friend, Merce Cunningham, and for Paul Taylor.
(10) "On the barges and the bridges and the banks of the river there were people who had taken their places to cheer through the mist, undaunted by the rain," he Queen , 86, observed in her message.
(11) Hundreds of al-Qaida fighters were holed up in the Tora Bora caves yesterday, apparently undaunted by more than a week of heavy American bombing and repeated mojahedin attacks.
(12) If Mike Ashley , Newcastle's owner, who apparently thrashed out a deal with the club's former manager at the Orange Tree pub in Totteridge, north London, last week, remained undaunted, others saw things differently.
(13) Undaunted, Murdoch met Biffen but thought the meeting had not gone well.
(14) At the same time he wants to write enough of a final chapter to take him well beyond the court cases that have wrapped up in London.” Folkenflik said the audacious move was also a bid by Murdoch to redefine his image after the hacking scandal, to demonstrate to the world he was “as relentless and as close to immortal as you can be.” “He wants it to show that his empire is larger than ever, that he’s undaunted and that people think of him unceasingly growing the family empire and giving James and Lachlan more vineyards to play in,” he said.
(15) ‘I’m still for him’: Trump fans undaunted by string of campaign blunders Read more Attending a Serbian cultural festival over the weekend, he told the Washington Post: “Wisconsin Republicans are good at sniffing out interlopers.
(16) As befits someone who use to work as an apprentice under Brian Clough, even if he never quite made it to the Nottingham Forest first team, Dyche makes the best of what he has and is undaunted by the challenge of leading Burnley into a higher division.
(17) So I think that we represent about 60% of Americans with that philosophical belief.” A difficult exchange followed on Johnson’s policies on immigration, tax, a balanced federal budget and the use of American force, the candidate repeating that he was “not getting elected dictator or king” and Wallace countering that “when you say we’re not going to be elected dictator, you’re saying, ‘Don’t take my policies seriously because they won’t get through.’” Undaunted, Johnson closed by emphasising his optimism.
(18) Undaunted by geographic limitations, she surveyed and publicized data that documented the mismanagement of living conditions and health care among the occupational forces on the Indian continent.
(19) It is a clear, crisp morning and the rodents are out in force, seemingly undaunted by daylight or passersby.
(20) Bravely, an undaunted Lansley – or La-La as prominent NHS blogger Roy Lilley called him – returned to the RCN's get-together last year.