What's the difference between daring and valiant?

Daring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dare
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Dare
  • (n.) Boldness; fearlessness; adventurousness; also, a daring act.
  • (a.) Bold; fearless; adventurous; as, daring spirits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Opposition politicians such as Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam and Chee Soon Juan , brought low for daring to disagree.
  • (2) At a dinner party, say, if ever you hear a person speak of a school for Islamic children, or Catholic children (you can read such phrases daily in newspapers), pounce: "How dare you?
  • (3) "The Afghan people dared rockets and bombs, but they came out and voted and that's great."
  • (4) In real life, the Hollywood star wants to reshape Hove as a member of the design team behind one of Britain's most daring architectural projects.
  • (5) "I am looking forward to … producing ambitious, daring and engaging content both in the UK and internationally, as well as accessing their extensive library of film content."
  • (6) The "respect the game" police are back, (do they ever go away) and after Adrian Gonzalez, who dared to pump his fists following a fourth inning double that brought home LA's first run of the game.
  • (7) If they didn't think they could get away with it, they wouldn't dare do it."
  • (8) Besides, he consoled himself with the thought that the ghosts probably wouldn’t dare to hurt Pippi.
  • (9) Elsewhere, Lady Edith dares spend the night with her boyfriend, on the eve of his supposed departure to Germany, where he plans to become a citizen in order to divorce his wife on the grounds that she’s a lunatic, so that he may marry Edith.
  • (10) They will occasionally take selfies, if they’re feeling especially daring or if Joe Biden is in the vicinity .
  • (11) The Malaysian prime minister has announced he is scrapping the country's draconian security laws and relaxing media controls, in what he billed as a daringly bold package of reforms.
  • (12) From the genesis of the thing – pop stars dropping plans to perform; Greater Manchester police working to make it operationally possible; the footballer Michael Carrick moving his career testimonial match forward by two hours ; everything was about making things that little bit less crap, and dare I say it – out and out joyous.
  • (13) Cycling is perceived to be for the brave and adventurous, those who dare.
  • (14) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
  • (15) For the third time, the Greeks have learned that weakness is strength because Europe dares not pull the trigger.
  • (16) Addressing the crowd, communist party leader Aleka Papariga warned that whatever government emerged in the coming days would face the wrath of the people if it dared to pass more belt-tightening measures.
  • (17) The plan that dared not speak its name before the last election is now plain for all to see: run it down, break it up, sell it off,” he said.
  • (18) It is what got my father and my brother kidnapped by the Taliban – they were Hazara men who dared to dream of a better life by pursuing education, and wished the same for their children.
  • (19) The reality was that it was a very difficult time, with my competitors very upset that I had dared to enter the market at all.
  • (20) A plane carrying the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana, had been shot down and I dared not imagine the consequences.

Valiant


Definition:

  • (a.) Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.
  • (a.) Intrepid in danger; courageous; brave.
  • (a.) Performed with valor or bravery; heroic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thatcher tried valiantly to persuade Reagan to exert pressure on the Israelis as a means to breaking the deadlock in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but she was unsuccessful.
  • (2) While Miliband was valiantly attempting to own the future, he lost the core argument about the past.
  • (3) They battled valiantly to preserve it departed defeated.
  • (4) It was a fairly valiant attempt from Manchester United , but as their players grew leggy from chasing shadows, they dropped deep and let Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery wreak their unique brand of havoc.
  • (5) In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces.
  • (6) Fidelity led a group of venture capital investors in the deal, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Firstmark Capital, Valiant Capital Management and Andreessen Horowitz.
  • (7) 1 along with controls of Tytin, Valiant and Valiant-Ph.D.
  • (8) For it was doubly stolen, not just from Disraeli but from the valiant but defeated One Nation Tories such as Sir Ian Gilmour and Jim Prior, repelled by Margaret Thatcher's "no such thing as society".
  • (9) This is a proper battle and Celtic will be confident they will prevail ... but Karagandy are valiant defenders and, what's more, know they can cause chaos at the other end through set-pieces and high balls.
  • (10) Nina Funnell’s terrifying physical assault detailed in Unbreakable is something her mind endures out-of-time, “valiantly trying to protect me from the trauma of what was occurring”.
  • (11) There were valiant sandbagging efforts from Environment Agency , residents and scores of volunteers.
  • (12) Valiant Republic of Ireland find late recipe to beat Italy at their own game | Paul Wilson Read more Everybody knows what happened when Ireland last played France on French soil.
  • (13) Statistically, Lojic N restorations showed significantly more surface tarnish, but less marginal fracture than did Valiant-PhD restorations, and the tarnishing did not appear to be related to the effects of corrosion.
  • (14) 37 min: Brazil have penned Korea back for the last couple of minutes but the defending continues to be valiant and there is simply no way through.
  • (15) Critchlow puts in a valiant effort during a visit to a community initiative with Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, who dismisses as "hogwash" the idea that the Tories have given up.
  • (16) This approach may be characterised as either valiantly persistent or foolishly naive.
  • (17) Fiat made a valiant attempt to export cars to China, but the excursion stalled once Beijing's newly rich spotted the showrooms for Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
  • (18) The recent news from Britain, where thousands of people mourned the loss of one whale that rescuers tried valiantly but unsuccessfully to save in the Thames, was surreal to us.
  • (19) David Cameron has laboured valiantly to deliver that reformed EU, but it was never in his gift.
  • (20) Nobody can lay out a terribly elegant policy stall in that time, although the Liberal Democrats are valiantly talking up the way they took poorer people out of tax.