Courageous Sentence Examples

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  • You're a very resourceful and courageous person.

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  • I hope I shall be courageous always.

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  • Squirrels are restless, courageous and pugnacious little animals.

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  • Stanton had a violent temper and a sharp tongue, but he was courageous, energetic, thoroughly honest and a genuine patriot.

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  • He bristled at the mention of Rhyn in the same sentence as Andre.  One half-brother had been noble, courageous, honorable, willing to sacrifice himself for their cause.  Rhyn was the opposite.

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  • You're beautiful and courageous.

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  • There were courageous people who had opposed the war.

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  • He was handsome and eloquent, but licentious; and at the same time active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.

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  • In spite of such drawbacks, Carlyle in later years looked back upon the life at Craigenputtock as on the whole a comparatively healthy and even happy period, as it was certainly one of most strenuous and courageous endeavour.

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  • A little girl in a story was not courageous.

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  • He was one of the founders of the Liberal League, and his courageous definiteness of view and intellectual vigour marked him out as Lord Rosebery's chief lieutenant if that statesman should ever return to power.

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  • This long parliamentary career was closed by a courageous protest against the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851.

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  • He also played Beethoven and Weber in public - a very courageous thing in those days.

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  • He energetically defended the republic against the Boulangist agitation, and took an equally courageous part in the Dreyfus affair.

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  • It was a courageous PP g shares.

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  • Few men have been so courageous, and his influence was magnetic. Even the rough Szeklers, though they did not understand the language of their "little father," regarded him with superstitious reverence.

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  • The English owed the victory to their archers, whose shafts rolled up a courageous charge by the Scots.

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  • You've always been so strong — so courageous.

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  • Sidmouth suffers by comparison with the great men of his age, but he was honest and courageous in his opinions, loyal to his friends, and devoted to church and state.

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  • Aries is courageous and a force to be reckoned with.

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  • He had lost his seat for Bristol two years before, in consequence of his courageous advocacy of a measure of tolerance for the Catholics, and his still more courageous exposure of the enormities of the commercial policy of England towards Ireland.

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  • She is so courageous â never wanting to give up.

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  • He was not courageous; he was very prudent.

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  • For example, if Venus is in Aries for the man, he would like strong, courageous women, while if the Venus sign is in Cancer, he may prefer a woman who enjoys the more domestic side of life.

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  • This courageous offer, made at a time when the situation in France was so menacing, was never forgotten by the Allies, though declined for the moment on purely military grounds.

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  • The majority of Spaniards were kept by the government and the press quite in the dark about the growth of disaffection in Cuba, so that they were loath to listen to the few men, soldiers and civilians, courageous enough to raise the note of alarm during the ten years before the final catastrophe.

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  • His courageous struggle against the war achieved international recognition and in 1918 he was made honorary Soviet consul in Glasgow.

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  • To be given them demands very courageous openness with our heavenly Father, from whom nothing is hidden.

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  • Today's modern miniature smooth dachshund is a very intelligent, lively and courageous to the point of brashness.

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  • Passionate writing and courageous performance born out of anger, disillusionment, and an implacable hatred of Ben Elton.

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  • Patience here is courageous perseverance in the face of suffering and difficulty is produced through divers temptations.

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  • It is equally active and courageous, not rarely attacking persons who approach too near to its resting-place.

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  • They are restless, courageous and pugnacious little animals.

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  • He said his organization was in contact with courageous Israeli peace activists, including the refusenik soldiers.

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  • The fight put up by the courageous Palestinians sent shock waves through israel.

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  • The new generation will be well-advised to take some courageous steps.

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  • The Courageous Persuaders Scholarship is open to all high school students who create 30-minute television commercials on alcohol use in middle school.

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  • O'Neal decided to propose once again, to the woman he described as "…powerful, courageous and fearless" and she finally accepted.

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  • The following famous dogs are just a few of the courageous search and rescue teams who worked tirelessly to recover victims from the collapsed WTC towers after that fateful day of September 11, 2001.

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  • One of the oldest of dog breeds in the world, these courageous and loyal canines descended from guardian dogs that protected sheep in Asia more then 10,000 years ago.

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  • The yang is said to be bold, courageous and outgoing in nature.

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  • In April, 2009 Paquin appeared in the CBS TV film The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler.

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  • If you are feeling courageous, feel free to give the artist an idea of what you would like and allow him or her to design it for you.

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  • In the case of Aries the Ram, they are predicted to be adventurous, courageous, impulsive and impatient.

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  • To watch people transform, and get to hold space for all the courageous beings who chose this path, is the greatest honor.

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  • Although she is now a formally trained, courageous singer/songwriter, life is still a struggle for Curtis at times.

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  • At the end of the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit characters are highly regarded by the other races for their courageous self-sacrifice.

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  • His eldest son Charles (1536-1624), lord admiral of England in 1585, sailed as commander in chief against the Spanish Armada, and, although giving due weight to the counsel of Drake and his other officers, showed himself a leader as prudent as courageous.

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  • In his many battles he was always victorious, his strategy eminently successful, his organizing and administrative power exceptionally great, his practical resource unlimited, his soldiers most courageous; but he never had an army fully complete in its departments and warlike equipment.

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  • His courageous intervention in favour of the Girondists on the 2nd of June 1793 served Robespierre as a pretext to prevent his re-election to the Committee of Public Safety.

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  • Her courageous bearing during the return from Varennes had greatly impressed Barnave, and he now approached her on behalf of the Feuillants and the constitutional party.

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  • It possesses all the active, courageous and bloodthirsty disposition of the rest of the genus, but its diminutive size prevents it attacking and destroying any but the smaller mammals and birds.

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  • Like his father-in-law, Thrasea Paetus, he was distinguished for his ardent and courageous republicanism.

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  • An organized association, known as the Molly Maguires, terrorized the mining regions for many years, but was finally suppressed through the courageous efforts of President Franklin, Benjamin Gowen (1863-1889) of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad with the assistance of Allan Pinkerton and his detectives.

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  • The poverty-stricken and barbarous Nubians were strong and courageous, and gladly served in Egypt as mercenary soldiers and police.

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  • They formed a remarkable militia, trained to the use of arms; wonderfully mobile and rapid on the march and dauntlessly courageous.

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  • Her romantic and sad life has rendered the courageous and accomplished Jacqueline the most picturesque figure in the whole history of Holland.

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  • The authorities were passive, and although some courageous persons actually rescued the victim at an early stage and concealed him in a friendly house, the bloodthirsty mob soon discovered his refuge and were about to force an entrance, when the dying man surrendered to save his deliverer's property.

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  • You've always been so strong — so courageous.

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  • It was a kind and courageous thing to do.

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  • Gerry Winter's politically courageous action did not get the appreciation it deserved.

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  • Lord's [which commissioned the NatWest Media Center] was extraordinarily courageous as a client but Selfridges is of a different order.

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  • This can only impel them to bear courageous witness to that " good news " which gives meaning to their entire existence.

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  • His actions when fighting for his country in Italy might appear courageous, but they're shown to be foolhardy and ultimately self-destructive.

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  • We need a courageous visionary Government, who are willing to take the lead and set an example.

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  • Considerably in advance of public opinion, it already pronounced in favour of a republic. By its erudite, brilliant and courageous examination of the rights of king, of nobles, of clergy and of people, it attained a wide and sudden popularity; it secured for the author the friendship and protection of Mirabeau, and the studied abuse of numerous royalist pamphleteers.

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  • He was impetuous, intense and often vehement, unflinchingly courageous, devoted with his whole soul to the cause he had espoused; but his vanity, his pride of opinion and his inborn contentiousness were serious handicaps to him in his political career.

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  • From that day he became an acknowledged power in the House, and though addressing a most unfriendly audience, he compelled attention by his thorough mastery of his subject, and by the courageous boldness with which he charged the ranks of his adversaries.

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  • Armfelt was the most courageous of the supporters of the crown prince Gustavus, and when Bernadotte was elected resolved to retire to Finland.

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  • He who sows in hope shall reap in joy; therefore, dear reader, be thou strong, and very courageous.

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  • His actions when fighting for his country in Italy might appear courageous, but they 're shown to be foolhardy and ultimately self-destructive.

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  • Through her publicist Georgianna Dente, Ray, 38, said, "The students of Enterprise High are so courageous, given all that they've gone through.

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  • Or for an even more outrageous look, dramatic color can be both crazy and courageous.

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  • So you're feeling courageous and have decided to go ahead with the ultimate wax job.

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  • Besides my book, I have a chapter in an upcoming book called Courageous Parenting titled, "I'm Worried I Worry Too Much But How Do I Stop?"

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  • A tense and illuminating account of an extremely courageous stance taken against overwhelming odds.

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  • Many brave people have become courageous much to their surprise.

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  • If I feel courageous, I will report later on the nature of the roadworks hinted at by this sign.

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  • The dashing escapades of courageous men who brought wealth to Queen Elizabeth were also included in the ranks of Elizabethan courtiers.

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  • The astrological profile of Aries is very clear; this is an extremely hard-charging and courageous sign.

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  • Further, he not only created a style of his own, but, instead of taking the substance of his writings from Greek poetry, or from a remote past, he treated of the familiar matters of daily life, of the politics, the wars, the administration of justice, the eating and drinking, the money-making and money-spending, the scandals and vices, which made up the public and private life of Rome in the last quarter of the and century B.C. This he did in a singularly frank, independent and courageous spirit, with no private ambition to serve, or party cause to advance, but with an honest desire to expose the iniquity or incompetence of the governing body, the sordid aims of the middle class, and the corruption and venality of the city mob.

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  • Soon after this the courageous explorer Arnaud discovered the ancient Mariab, the royal city of the Sabaeans, and at great risk copied fifty-six inscriptions and took a plan of the walls, the dam, and the temple to the east of the city.

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  • Her firm and courageous disposition showed itself at that trying time and throughout the whole of her singularly varied career.

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  • On the death of King Frederick, Tausen, at the instance of Ronne, was, at the Herredag of 1533, convicted of blasphemy and condemned to expulsion from the diocese of Sjaelland, whereupon the mob rose in arms against the bishop, who would have been murdered but for the courageous intervention of Tausen, who conducted him home in safety.

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  • During the next fifty years three unsuccessful attempts were made by the Spaniards to subdue this courageous people.

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  • But they are courageous and loyal to their chiefs and tribe, and for short periods are capable of much strenuous exertion.

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  • The latter wished for more fasting, the prohibition of second marriages, a frank, courageous profession of Christianity in daily life, and entire separation from the world; the bishops, on the other hand, sought to make it as easy as possible to be a Christian, lest they should lose the greater part of their congregations.

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  • His legs grew weaker; his breath grew shorter; the fatal water gathered fast, in spite of incisions which he, courageous against pain but timid against death, urged his surgeons to make deeper and deeper.

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  • The so-called " Instrument," now signed by the Lower Estates, offered the realm to the king and his house as a hereditary monarchy, by way of thank-offering mainly for his courageous deliverance of the kingdom during the war; and the Rigsraad and the nobility were urged to notify the resolution to the king, and desire him to maintain each Estate in its due privileges, and to give a written counterassurance that the revolution now to be effected was for the sole benefit of the state.

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  • To avert the danger of a man of this type succeeding to the throne Peter made a law by which the reigning sovereign might choose his successor according to his own judgment, and two years later he caused his second wife, Catherine Catherine, the daughter of a Lithuanian peasant, to 1, be crowned with all due solemnity, " in recognition of the courageous services rendered by her to the Russian Empire."

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  • Of fine physique and hardy constitution, they are of strongly independent character; patriarchal in their family life; shrewd, slim and courageous; in religion Protestants of a somewhat austere type.

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  • In fact the pasha was an illiterate barbarian, of the same type as his countryman Ali of Iannina, courageous, cruel, astute, full of wiles, avaricious and boundlessly ambitious.

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  • But when the revolt of the younger Cyrus against his brother (401 B.C.) had demonstrated the surprising ease and rapidity with which a courageous army could penetrate into the heart of the empirewhen the whole force of that empire had proved powerless, not only to prevent some 12,000 Greek troops, completely surrounded, cut off from their communications, and deprived through treachery of their leaders, from escaping to the coast, but even to make a serious attack on themthen, indeed, the imperial impotence became manifest.

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  • After the second restoration he distinguished himself as a courageous advocate of moderation in the treatment of the military adherents of the emperor.

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  • Indisputably Charles was cruel, ungenerous and vindictive; yet he seems, at all hazards, strenuously to have endeavoured to do his duty during a period of political and religious transition, and, despite his violence and brutality, possessed many of the qualities of a wise and courageous statesman.

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  • As the courageous champion of the rights of her son and her husband, Margaret must command a certain sympathy.

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  • Another Milanese serial was the Conciliatore (1818-1820), which although it only lived two years, will be remembered for the endeavours made by Silvio Pellico, Camillo Ugoni and its other contributors to introduce a more dignified and courageous method of criticism.

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  • His patriotism was untainted by selfseeking; he was courageous in risking his popularity for what his sound judgment showed him to be the right course.

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  • The Yurak Samoyedes are courageous and warlike; they offered armed resistance to the Russian invaders, and it is only since the beginning of the century that they have paid tribute.

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  • He was rewarded by five or six months of dangerous and distressful wanderings, and would certainly have been taken at one juncture but for the courageous and wise assistance of Flora Macdonald, while on all hands the highlanders displayed the most devoted loyalty.

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  • His own materials for these lectures and his students' notes and reports of them are the only form in which the larger proportion of his works exist - a circumstance which has greatly increased the difficulty of getting a clear and harmonious view of fundamental portions of his philosophical and ethical system, while it has effectually deterred all but the most courageous and patient students from reading these posthumous collections.

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  • The chief features of his administration were the fiscal preference of 333% in favour of goods imported into Canada from Great Britain, the despatch of Canadian contingents to South Africa during the Boer war, the contract with the Grand Trunk railway for the construction of a second transcontinental road from ocean to ocean, the assumption by Canada of the imperial fortresses at Halifax and Esquimault, the appointment of a federal railway commission with power to regulate freight charges, express rates and telephone rates, and the relations between competing companies, the reduction of the postal rate to Great Britain from 5 cents to 2 cents and of the domestic rate from 3 cents to 2 cents, a substantial contribution to the Pacific cable, a practical and courageous policy of settlement and development in the Western territories, the division of the North-West territories into the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the enactment of the legislation necessary to give them provincial status, and finally (1910), a tariff arrangement with the United States, which, if not all that Canada might claim in the way of reciprocity, showed how entirely the course of events had changed the balance of commercial interests in North America.

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  • He wanted her to see what he saw, the good his Guardians did for humanity, the courageous, selfless hearts of his men, the difference they made in fighting evil.

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