(a.) Incapable of being daunted; undaunted; bold; fearless; intrepid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Argentina has complained to the UN of the UK's "militarisation" of the south Atlantic following news of the six-month deployment of Dauntless, which the Ministry of Defence has said is on routine mission taking over patrols from the frigate HMS Montrose.
(2) Larklight by Philip Reeve An imaginative tour de force, this rousing tale of dauntless pluck in the farthest reaches of space presents an alternative reality where Sir Isaac Newton's great discoveries have made the conquest of space possible.
(3) Well,” Davis ploughs on, dauntless, “you’ll be pleased to hear he’s retiring, then.” “She is no way going down as a Labour voter,” Davis says, as she heads to the next name on her list.
(4) It was the dauntless action of millions of ordinary people in the streets, day after day, which broke the regime and brought the Berlin Wall down.
(5) The MoD says a British destroyer, HMS Dauntless, has joined a US aircraft carrier group, and a frigate, HMS Kent, is escorting the French aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, in the Gulf.
(6) Walter Mitty's inner Walter Mitty is never rattled, however tight the corner; his peers marvel at his dauntless courage and are left breathless by the almost superhuman range of talents that real life never allows him to demonstrate.
(7) The commemorations took place as it was confirmed HMS Dauntless, one of the Royal Navy's newest and most powerful destroyers, will set sail from Portsmouth to the Falkland Islands on Wednesday, a day before the 30th anniversary of the taskforce's departure.
(8) She calls herself “feisty”, and her self-belief seems dauntless, but a story she tells about failing her 11-plus makes me wonder.
(9) Destroyer HMS Dauntless will set sail from Portsmouth for the Falklands in what the the Ministry of Defence says is a "pre-planned and routine" six-month deployment in the South Atlantic.
(10) It relates to his dauntless quest to get a friend and erstwhile media ally a nice little quango job.
Doughty
Definition:
(superl.) Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(2) MPs including Chuka Umunna, Stephen Doughty and Kate Green won the backing of 101 MPs, including 49 Labour rebels, for their amendment to the Queen’s speech, which called for the government to abandon the idea that “no deal is better than a bad deal” in the Brexit talks.
(3) It is what made American librarians into such doughty defenders of private reading.
(4) Among the confirmed events are a debate in January, in Berlin, featuring the writers Claire Tomalin, Toby Litt, Louise Doughty, Philip Hensher, Denise Mina and David Nicholls.
(5) The Rangers were the first to strike at the Staples Center Wednesday night, care of Benoit Pouliot (on the breakaway, off an uncharacteristic mistake by Drew Doughty) at the 13:21 mark of the first period.
(6) LA defenseman Drew Doughty and 18 others on his team have combined 64-2 in these decisive encounters.
(7) Then there's Roger Federer up against the doughty Tommy Robredo, who beat the world No4 at the US Open last year.
(8) An Officer and A Spy beat books including Louise Doughty’s Apple Tree Yard to win the CWA prize and is, said the organisation , an example of “masterly storytelling” and an “outstanding, beautifully written novel [that] transforms actual events into an edge-of-the-seat thriller”.
(9) Setanta's investors include venture capitalists Balderton Capital and Doughty Hanson and investment bank Goldman Sachs.
(10) Prof Julie Doughty, lecturer in law at Cardiff University, who is being funded by Nuffield to research transparency in the family courts, said current measures did not go far enough.
(11) There are signs of life: Labour’s education spokeswoman Kezia Dugdale has proved a doughty campaigner, in some areas, particularly when challenging the legal loan sharks circling over ever-struggling families, though she seems reluctant to say the least.
(12) Sham on that Doughty... That means we have some wide-open four-on-four hockey for two minutes, and all of that open ice favors the speed of the Rangers.
(13) During a stadium tour at Stamford Bridge his father telephoned to say that Nigel Doughty, the former Forest chairman, had died.
(14) Now Doughty turns around, fires and Lundqvist makes the stop - there may have been a deflection there but the Swede was on it!
(15) The Iron Lady You need an actor to do charming, doughty and steadfast?
(16) In the UK, the doughty chair of the public accounts committee, Margaret Hodge, investigating Google for tax avoidance has denounced the firm as "devious", "calculating … and manipulating".
(17) 1.57am BST Rangers 0-1 Kings, 01:12, 1st period But wait, now Drew Doughty thrusts his stick up at Stepan, and he goes for cross-checking, so there goes their man-advantage.
(18) • by Chuka Umunna MP, Phil Wilson MP, Madeleine Moon MP, Maria Eagle MP, Liz Kendall MP, Stella Creasy MP, Wes Streeting MP, Mike Gapes MP, Kate Green MP, Lord Michael Cashman, Anne Coffey MP, Ian Murray MP, Rushanara Ali MP, Karen Buck MP, Stephen Doughty MP, Stephen Timms MP, Lord Spencer Livermore, Catherine McKinnell MP, Lord Peter Hain, Tulip Siddiq MP, Peter Kyle MP, Ruth Cadbury MP, Bridget Phillipson MP, Pat McFadden MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Thangam Debbonaire MP, Chris Bryant MP, Andy Slaughter MP, Daniel Zeichner MP, Alison McGovern MP, Darren Jones MP, Kerry McCarthy MP, Ben Bradshaw MP, Clare Moody MEP, Seb Dance MEP, Luciana Berger MP, Lord George Foulkes, Catherine Stihler MEP, David Martin MEP, Jude Kirton-Darling MEP, Mary Honeyball MEP, Paul Brannen MEP, Richard Corbett MEP, Julie Ward MEP, Derek Vaughan MEP, Lucy Anderson MEP, David Lammy MP, Lord John Monks, Meg Hillier MP, Adrian Bailey MP and Lady Meta Ramsay
(19) Replays show that Doughty's shot was deflected off of Dominic Moore.
(20) Her professional profile on the Doughty Street Chambers website has been changed from Amal Alamuddin to Amal Clooney.