(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.
Strenuous
Definition:
(a.) Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results indicate that prolonged strenuous physical exercise can induce acute modifications of plasma lipoproteins, which may in part be related to enhanced lipolysis.
(2) We conclude that this low protein diet is compatible with non-strenuous work.
(3) Screening tests of any kind are currently the centre of controversy as measures are being strenuously taken to contain health costs.
(4) Respiratory frequencies recorded during the most strenuous exercise were approximately 50% below the value observed when dik-diks are exposed to an ambient temperature (Ta) of 42 degrees C. 4.
(5) To determine the etiologic role of strenuous manual tasks in relation to epicondylitis, three clinical cross-sectional examinations were performed on meatcutters (N = 102), sausage makers (N = 125), packers (N = 150), and workers in nonstrenuous tasks (N = 332).
(6) However, the strenuous working conditions, which concern about 20% of pregnant women at work, lead to a higher prematurity rate.
(7) On Thursday he told the Guardian: “There is no more strenuous denial than the one I am giving.
(8) We have opposed this every step of the way and will continue to strenuously oppose this," Bailey said.
(9) Do one-day or shorter sections of the route between Les Houches and Argentière, or tackle the Tour du Mont Blanc, a strenuous 250km trail that takes in the most naturally dramatic slices of Switzerland, France and Italy.
(10) It is concluded that the inotropic effect of ouabain is negligible during strenuous physical activity because of the presence of high levels of sympathetic stimulation.
(11) Resting muscle is generally perceived as a glucose-utilizing organ; however, we show that resting well-oxygenated frog muscle recovering from strenuous exercise can release significant amounts of glucose.
(12) But all those involved strenuously denied they had deliberately, or even consciously, interfered or tampered with their tags.
(13) It has been shown that the increased activity of human and murine macrophages brought about by extreme strenuous physical exercising, insofar as one is able to order them into a progressive scheme of stress happenings, fit very well into the concepts of the 'alarm reaction' phase.
(14) The ability of diabetic rats to perform prolonged, moderately strenuous exercise of an intensity that could be maintained for more than 60 min was not affected by methylpalmoxirate treatment.
(15) Clinical and radiographic OA of fingers and knees did not correlate with previous strenuous occupations.
(16) Strenuous exercise may cause menstrual abnormalities, including amenorrhea.
(17) The backroom staff are aware of the strenuous work the 22-man party – Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain remains in rehabilitation from a medial knee ligament injury – have undertaken in the heat and humidity of Miami and now their base in Urca, Rio de Janeiro, and decided on Tuesday night that their first session in the north would be light despite an outdoor training pitch having been made available by Fifa.
(18) Cardiac glycogen during and following a single bout of moderate running was compared to a bout of strenuous running in fed male Long-Evans rats.
(19) Previous sedentary workers were more disabled in activities of daily living than those whose work had previously been physically strenuous.
(20) As these are likely to include the older athletes who are also more likely to suffer acute myocardial injury during strenuous exercise, our findings assume special import in the interpretation of increased CK and CK-MB serum activities of older athletes.