(1) It’s not just a matter of will or gumption or desire on my part.
(2) The other lumped the ball forward with neither the wit nor gumption to get behind the opposition defence on a single occasion.
(3) It will blitz much of London's south Camden because decades ago a rail planner thought businessmen deserved a more comfortable trip to Euston, and no one had the gumption to think otherwise.
(4) "When I look back on it now, I wish we had the gumption or the knowledge to realise at a very early stage that Fifa wanted something fundamentally different than what we were putting on the table," the minister said.
(5) His front players simply did not have the wit or gumption to examine whether City, without Kompany, might be at risk.
(6) In a city of hustlers, tricksters, and go-getters, where the right dose of swag and gumption gets you farther than a college degree can, Furo is a bumbling non-entity.
(7) Yet they played with a level of wit and gumption that has become rare among visiting teams to this ground.
(8) Unfortunately for England, they did not have the wit or gumption to do anything about it.
(9) Soames said: "If the Press Complaints Commission had any gumption or mettle … we would not need to refer this matter to the select committee."
(10) Rid them from our small island, came the still popular reply, especially those with the gumption to organise others.
(11) Quitting can show coworkers or colleagues who don’t quite have the gumption to get out of obviously bad situations that it can be done; it can inspire others to have the courage to change their lot, maybe in less brazen, more incremental ways.
(12) Is his bossness inherent, or is it something that I or anybody else could achieve with a little bit of gumption and a lot of front?
(13) Why did Labour here not have the guts and the gumption to do the same thing when it had the chance.
(14) Manchester City stay top after late drama against Norwich City Read more Wenger’s team were beaten twice by Swansea last season and gaining vengeance, especially amid an injury crisis, is the sort of achievement that gives credence to suggestions that Arsenal may finally have the gumption to become champions once again.
(15) President Peña-Nieto has the gumption to ask the Egyptian government this week “to perform an exhaustive investigation” looking into the reasons why Egyptian forces air raided and killed twelve tourists, eight of which were Mexican nationals, after allegedly mistaking them for terrorists.
(16) There were weaknesses in the prosecution case: no forensic evidence to link Matthews to Shannon's flat prison, and doubts that Donovan – described as "soft-headed" and "a weirdo" by neighbours – had the gumption to carry out a kidnap.
(17) Walters has been written off before, towards the end of Pulis’s reign, and came back strongly, endearing himself even further to Stoke fans, who are particularly reluctant to vent against ageing wingers, what with there being a statue outside their ground of Sir Stanley Matthews, who played for them until just after his 50th birthday and later declared: “It was a mistake to pack it in, I could have gone on for another two years.” If sheer gumption were enough for a player to play until his 50s, then Walters would be a good bet to make it.
(18) He has said his show is only necessary because journalists have abandoned their responsibilities through a mix of indifference and a lack of gumption that leaves viewers and readers with no real idea of what is going on.
(19) Microfinance became a powerful way of casting the poor as responsible for bootstrapping themselves out of poverty: all you need is a bit of gumption and some credit, and you should do just fine – if you fail, you have no one to blame but yourself.
(20) And hopefuly labour will have the gumption to remind them.
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?