(a.) Vigorous in body; strong; powerful; as, a valiant fencer.
(a.) Intrepid in danger; courageous; brave.
(a.) Performed with valor or bravery; heroic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thatcher tried valiantly to persuade Reagan to exert pressure on the Israelis as a means to breaking the deadlock in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but she was unsuccessful.
(2) While Miliband was valiantly attempting to own the future, he lost the core argument about the past.
(3) They battled valiantly to preserve it departed defeated.
(4) It was a fairly valiant attempt from Manchester United , but as their players grew leggy from chasing shadows, they dropped deep and let Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery wreak their unique brand of havoc.
(5) In a lifetime in public life, I've never seen the same sort of storm of background briefing, personal sniping and media frenzy getting in the way of decent people doing a valiant job trying to cope with unprecedented natural forces.
(6) Fidelity led a group of venture capital investors in the deal, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Firstmark Capital, Valiant Capital Management and Andreessen Horowitz.
(7) 1 along with controls of Tytin, Valiant and Valiant-Ph.D.
(8) For it was doubly stolen, not just from Disraeli but from the valiant but defeated One Nation Tories such as Sir Ian Gilmour and Jim Prior, repelled by Margaret Thatcher's "no such thing as society".
(9) This is a proper battle and Celtic will be confident they will prevail ... but Karagandy are valiant defenders and, what's more, know they can cause chaos at the other end through set-pieces and high balls.
(10) Nina Funnell’s terrifying physical assault detailed in Unbreakable is something her mind endures out-of-time, “valiantly trying to protect me from the trauma of what was occurring”.
(11) There were valiant sandbagging efforts from Environment Agency , residents and scores of volunteers.
(12) Valiant Republic of Ireland find late recipe to beat Italy at their own game | Paul Wilson Read more Everybody knows what happened when Ireland last played France on French soil.
(13) Statistically, Lojic N restorations showed significantly more surface tarnish, but less marginal fracture than did Valiant-PhD restorations, and the tarnishing did not appear to be related to the effects of corrosion.
(14) 37 min: Brazil have penned Korea back for the last couple of minutes but the defending continues to be valiant and there is simply no way through.
(15) Critchlow puts in a valiant effort during a visit to a community initiative with Chris Grayling, the justice secretary, who dismisses as "hogwash" the idea that the Tories have given up.
(16) This approach may be characterised as either valiantly persistent or foolishly naive.
(17) Fiat made a valiant attempt to export cars to China, but the excursion stalled once Beijing's newly rich spotted the showrooms for Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
(18) The recent news from Britain, where thousands of people mourned the loss of one whale that rescuers tried valiantly but unsuccessfully to save in the Thames, was surreal to us.
(19) David Cameron has laboured valiantly to deliver that reformed EU, but it was never in his gift.
(20) Nobody can lay out a terribly elegant policy stall in that time, although the Liberal Democrats are valiantly talking up the way they took poorer people out of tax.
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.