What's the difference between terrorism and valour?

Terrorism


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
  • (n.) The practise of coercing governments to accede to political demands by committing violence on civilian targets; any similar use of violence to achieve goals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Perhaps they can laugh it all off more easily, but only to the extent that the show doesn’t instill terror for how this country’s greatness will be inflicted on them next.
  • (2) Madonna has defended her description of the leak of 13 unfinished demos from her forthcoming album as “a form of terrorism” and “artistic rape”.
  • (3) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
  • (4) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
  • (5) Last month following a visit to Islamabad Ben Emmerson QC, the UN's special rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, said he had been given assurances that there was no "tacit consent by Pakistan to the use of drones on its territory".
  • (6) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
  • (7) Based on documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the New York Times and ProPublica reported on Thursday that the Justice Department in 2012 permitted the NSA to use widespread surveillance authorities passed by Congress to stop terrorism and foreign espionage in order to find digital signatures associated with high-level cyber intrusions.
  • (8) It could still be terrorism but it looks as if the aircraft went out of control because the controls were literally burning up.
  • (9) In fact the very seriousness of the threat terrorism poses and this suggested response demands a full discussion.
  • (10) Conservative MP George Christensen has been forced to back down after suggesting an incident at a Sydney police station was a “failed terrorism attack” and linking it to radical Islamism.
  • (11) Lahoor Talabani, director of counter terrorism for the Kurdistan Regional Government, said: "According to the intelligence we have, just Britain alone have around 400 to 450 known people fighting amongst the ranks of Isis."
  • (12) A Home Office spokeswoman said: "It is vital that police and security services are able to obtain communications data in certain circumstances to investigate serious crime and terrorism and to protect the public.
  • (13) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
  • (14) If we accept that al-Qaida continues to pose a deadly threat to the UK, and if we know that it is capable of changing the locations of its bases and modifying its attack plans, we must accept that we have a duty to question the wisdom of prioritising, in terms of government spending on counter-terrorism, the deployment of our forces to Afghanistan.
  • (15) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
  • (16) Then wham, the sudden terrors again, about nothing in particular.
  • (17) Kiev said the rebels carried out the attacks themselves, with the prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk calling it an act of “Russian terrorism”.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Police and members of the emergency services attend to victims of a terror attack on London Bridge.
  • (19) Republican hopeful Donald Trump has launched a US presidential campaign advert attacking Barack Obama for supposedly prioritising Star Wars over the battle against terrorism.
  • (20) Obama permitted them to operate with minimal restriction, proliferating the physical scope of the global war on terrorism to Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Mali and Niger and the digital scope around the world.

Valour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Habib Daguib In the aftermath of the slaughter of 38 tourists at the Imperial Marhaba hotel have come tales of valour by waiters, lifeguards and men whose normal job is renting out water skis and plastic bananas.
  • (2) The first outfits had a punky feel: pinstripe suits with bold slogans – “honour”, “valour” and “truth” – covering the fronts of jackets.
  • (3) Like this woman came along and she had a medal for valour in the second world war, and she said it belonged to her grandfather's pigeon, Hughie.
  • (4) Discretion is, after all, the better part of valour," wrote KC Singh in Outlook magazine.
  • (5) Nintendo, with no new device, perhaps wisely chose discretion over valour, but did show a ream of new software for the Wii U .
  • (6) The whole House will want to join me in praising the dedication and valour of our troops, especially those engaged in the conflict in Afghanistan.
  • (7) And sometimes, as with the US Navy-backed Act Of Valour , currently burning up the jingoist and videogamer demographics at the US box office, the Pentagon literally gets final cut.
  • (8) Discretion should enable the better part of valour.
  • (9) The results obtained for three water compartments studied are given and compared with valours found in literature.
  • (10) And I want you to know that we will never forget the sacrifice and service of the American soldiers who gave their lives for people whose names they never knew, and whose faces they never saw, and yet people who have lived in freedom thanks to the bravery and valour of the Americans who gave the "last full measure of devotion".
  • (11) I learned young, as many of my generation did, of the significance of the red poppy, of Armistice Day, of Remembrance Sunday, the stories of sacrifice and valour.
  • (12) If, and this admittedly seems unlikely, everything goes to plan for the Pakistani army in the operation in South Waziristan, we could see the following scenario unfold: Confronted by a massive force, local tribes decide that discretion is the better part of valour and offer little support to Hakimullah Mehsud and the Pakistan Taliban militants.
  • (13) Which is not to diminish the valour of their hosts, who worked hard for their win even if they were thankful for a comical late penalty miss by Santi Cazorla.
  • (14) The generals' letter forms part of a campaign, called Stolen Valour, by leading military figures and Nothing British, an organisation that monitors the BNP.
  • (15) What we get instead are Top Gun , The Green Berets, Act Of Valour.
  • (16) "The government of Afghanistan is grateful to the international community for its assistance and remains confident that the Afghan forces will, as they did throughout history, protect their people and territorial integrity with courage and valour," he added.
  • (17) Marshall’s backstory alludes to his time piloting combat choppers in Vietnam, when he received the Medal of Honor for valour in battle from one of his predecessors.
  • (18) Before this montage, Kennard created his Decoration paintings, a series of 18 three-metre high canvases that drew attention to the human cost of the war while simultaneously meditating on tokens of commemoration and military valour.
  • (19) In the dictionary, it is defined as courage, pluck, valour, fearlessness, nerve, daring, heroism, gallantry.
  • (20) So when Kerslake writes a report about the potential "accountability gap" as services are hived off to free floating autonomous bodies and does not mention schools (as in free schools, whose accounts are not going to be publicly audited and whose answerability for their spending is obscure to say the least), we can only assume this senior official knows his ministers' minds and, discretion over valour, is staying silent about the obvious problems thrown up by their version of decentralisation.