(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.
Sumption
Definition:
(n.) A taking.
(n.) The major premise of a syllogism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sumption's letter implies that Neuberger did not believe that Witness B was acting alone and that the judge believed that Witness B's conduct was "characteristic of the service as a whole".
(2) The 15-page speech on "the limits of law" was delivered by Sumption – once one of Britain's highest-earning barristers – at the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, last week.
(3) In Mr Sumption's summary, a senior judge had initially found that there was such a "culture of suppression" within MI5 that it undermined any government assurances on its behalf.
(4) Sumption realised early on that the key to the case was character, and convincing the judge Berezovsky was a wrong 'un.
(5) This debate cannot be resolved here, but possibility of positive discrimination in the appointments process does, as Sumption suggests, deserve an airing, even if (and this is by no means clear) we – like Sumption – end up rejecting it.
(6) But Sumption failed to identify one of the prime causal factors: institutional sexism.
(7) Jonathan Sumption’s views exemplify perfectly what is wrong with the way women in the legal profession are viewed by those in the highest echelons of power.
(8) 11.14am BST Lord Sumption also issued an additional judgment.
(9) Concluding his speech, Sumption commented: "I am not going to suggest that the fabric of society will break down because judges, whether sitting in London, Strasbourg, Washington or anywhere else, make law for which there is no democratic mandate.
(10) Excepting the supreme court justice Lord Sumption, who has deep reservations about the extension of the judge-made law which flows from the extension of judicial review as well as from human rights law, this autumn has seen what amounts to a judicial conversation about the relationship between Strasbourg and the UK courts, the conclusion of which is that the fault lies less with Europe or the Human Rights Act than with our judges themselves.
(11) Lord Sumption looks around at the higher reaches of the bar and believes there are not enough women at the top of the profession who are up to the job of being a senior judge.
(12) One of the judges, Lord Sumption, said Catt regularly took part in demonstrations against the Brighton arms factory, owned by the manufacturer EDO MBM, which police had said were “amongst the most violent in the UK”.
(13) Gideon Sumption of Stacks Property Search, a buying agency, said: "Some people who perhaps retired in their mid- to late-50s and whose children had left home downsized to a smaller house.
(14) In his judgment on the Nicklinson case, Lord Sumption argued that the law is considerably more humane and flexible than many of those who argue for reform appear to recognise.
(15) How much money was Jonathan Sumption QC paid to represent Tony Blair at the Hutton inquiry?
(16) The court was effectively about to rule, Mr Sumption revealed, that MI5 had treated basic rights with contempt and had lied to the parliamentary watchdog which provides its only oversight.
(17) Delivering the Kuttan Menon memorial lecture, Hale agreed with many of the conclusions reached on improving judicial diversity by another supreme court justice, Lord Sumption, last year.
(18) In a sustained broadside, Lord Sumption, a UK supreme court justice, raised fundamental questions about the court – which has issued landmark but controversial judgements against the UK on the use of internment without trial in Northern Ireland and on the right of prisoners to vote.
(19) Adopting an unfashionable argument, Sumption also asserted that politicians are far better than judges at reaching compromises over competing interests.
(20) Since losing in the high court, David Millband has instructed one of the country's most expensive advocates, Jonathan Sumption QC, to represent his position.