(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.
Resolute
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) Having a decided purpose; determined; resolved; fixed in a determination; hence, bold; firm; steady.
(v. t. & i.) Convinced; satisfied; sure.
(v. t. & i.) Resolving, or explaining; as, the Resolute Doctor Durand.
(n.) One who is resolute; hence, a desperado.
(n.) Redelivery; repayment.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) The RNA polymerase activity was tested after the solubilization and chromatographic resolution of the three types of polymerases with exogenous template.
(5) Technical manipulations to improve resolution were time consuming and added little to the accuracy of the test.
(6) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(7) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
(8) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(9) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(10) The probable reaction mechanisms prevailing in both cases are discussed in accordance with the low and high resolution mass spectral data presented.
(11) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
(12) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
(13) The data collection scheme for the scanner uses multiple rotations of a linearly shifted, asymmetric fan beam permitting user-defined variable resolution.
(14) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.
(15) A technique is therefore described using 3-D images and reconstruction of high-resolution films, which allows rapid examination of the menisci in optimal planes.
(16) Analysis of Alu repeat polymorphism should be useful in construction of a high-resolution map and also in identifying genotypes of individuals for clinical and other purposes because the repeats are ubiquitous and the technique for their detection is simple.
(17) The most controversial part of the resolution is the stop and search powers.
(18) For application to mammalian cells, however, two serious problems require resolution: (1), correction of TPP+ binding to intracellular constituents and (2), estimation of the considerable TPP+ accumulation in mitochondria.
(19) Two high-resolution (Hi-Res) ECG systems (MAC-12, Marquette Electronics, Inc (MEI), Milwaukee, WI and LVP101, Arrhythmia Research Technology (ART), Austin, TX) were tested on 143 subjects (13 controls and 130 cardiac patients, 21 of whom were tested for inducible ventricular tachycardia [VT]).
(20) The spatial resolution of a NaI(T1), 25 mm thick bar detector designed for use in positron emission tomography has been studied.