(n.) That strength or firmness of mind which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has been a season where you learn about yourself, it teaches you about your own mental fortitude and resilience.
(2) I get the frustration and the level of trust that we’ve lost as a result of that incident.” O’Donnell said ABF would continue to conduct checks of immigration status “driven by intelligence” but not in the manner forecast by Operation Fortitude.
(3) So far Greeks have shown remarkable fortitude in the face of such adversity.
(4) Dangerous lists the external threats to American security (the Middle East, North Korea and Islamic State but no Russia, naturally), then accuses Clinton of lacking fortitude with footage of her recent public faint and of her coughing.
(5) Communities in west Africa continue to suffer from the crisis with remarkable fortitude and finally the rich world has committed significant finance and resources to support critical public health measures, and progress in the search for treatments is encouraging.
(6) Jamaican governments haven't been known for their fortitude.
(7) It would send the signal that we did not have the moral resolve and political fortitude to see through what we ourselves have described as a national security imperative."
(8) He said: "There is fortitude and joie de vivre here - the ability to celebrate life in spite of many problems."
(9) The match had not gone as Arsenal had intended, but the fortitude was still memorable.
(10) But 4Children warned that this "impressive fortitude" may not be sustainable in the long run.
(11) Klein helped to nurse her for six months and was inspired by the fortitude and spirit her mother showed in her partial rehabilitation, and the strength she discovered in herself.
(12) "The so-called rebels are very few in number, not substantial and they lack the most critically important feature in democratic politics – what Churchill called intestinal fortitude – guts," Kinnock said.
(13) Even at such a time, even the most deeply bereaved can demonstrate extraordinary fortitude,” he said.
(14) He needed to prove himself; and the real test of both his editorship and fortitude was the Suez crisis of 1956.
(15) He asks for privacy during the next few weeks and he emphasises that he is contrite and faces punishment with fortitude and remorse."
(16) It outlines some of the suffering and distress of having the disorder, some of the efforts and techniques used in trying to understand and cope with the disorder, the fortitude and endurance required, the difficulty in seeking and accepting treatment and some of the sufferer's hopes for a better future.
(17) In the grouping of past-oriented thought,” he says, “nostalgia stands out as adaptive.” In community experiments, research suggests that nostalgia helps build resources like optimism or inspiration or creativity, which are correlated with mental fortitude.
(18) Williams praised the victim’s bravery in coming forward, saying: “She has continued to show courage and fortitude … and the court wishes her good fortune for the future – which she so richly deserves.” Forced marriage was criminalised under the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014, which came into force last June.
(19) So I think just in general, for the group to have the fortitude that they showed to get back to this spot, I think speaks volumes about how they’re constituted and what kind of fibre they have.” It was clear that San Antonio were galvanised by the traumatic nature of their loss to Miami in 2013 - as well as aided by flaccid efforts from Miami's supporting cast, which made the Heat over-reliant on James.
(20) Boys are trained to be more aggressive, show more fortitude, and be more self-reliant than girls; girls are trained to be more industrious, responsible, obedient, and sexually restrained than boys.
Moxie
Definition:
(n.) energy; pep.
(n.) courage, determination.
(n.) Know-how, expertise.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, it is demonstrated that moxI encodes the small subunit of methanol dehydrogenase.
(2) The genes encoding the subunits of methanol dehydrogenase (moxF and moxI) have been isolated and sequenced.
(3) The moxY protein shows the general features of a sensor protein and the moxX protein those of a regulatory protein.
(4) Moxie Marlinspike, a San Francisco developer who makes encryption messaging apps including Signal, said plainly: “Law enforcement is supposed to be difficult.” Some regulators say they want to reach a compromise with technology companies.
(5) The organization and deduced amino acid sequences of the first three frames downstream from moxF were found to be largely homologous to the moxJ, moxG, and moxI gene products of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1.
(6) The product of moxG, the Mr-20,000 polypeptide, was identified as mature cytochrome cL, and the product of moxI, the Mr-12,000 polypeptide, was identified as a MeDH-associated polypeptide that copurifies with the holoenzyme.
(7) Snowden and Soghoian called on toolmakers to make their products “secure out of the box.” They both emphasised the need to make the security features of common internet technologies easier, with Snowden singling out Moxie Marlinspike’s startup Whisper for praise for its work in improving the user experience and user interface for cryptographic tools.
(8) Moxie Marlinspike, the developer behind the secure messaging app Signal and the encryption protocol used by Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger, worried that if Apple loses, the government could compel the company to alter programs downloaded from the App Store, such as his own, to be more surveillance friendly.
(9) The thing about the world where the FBI doesn’t miss anything, that’s a world where the FBI knows everything Moxie Marlinspike, developer Baker, now a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, asked: “Would you rather live in a world where the Tesla could be packed full of explosives, programmed to drive through the fence and into the White House” and the secret service unable to get Tesla to remotely stop the vehicle?