Discretion is the better part of valour.

This man lacks courage.

They talked about feeling stronger and braver.

He screwed up his courage and proposed to her.

Ancient people liked to tell stories of bravery.

Tom finally mustered up the courage to tell Mary that he loved her.

British officers believed that they were being brave by not being swayed by emotions !

People who lack courage, vision, and competence cannot lead.

The IMF has lacked the courage to put the option of currency boards to the forefront.

Politicians should have the courage to stop fighting an unwinnable war.

Tom didn't have the courage to admit that he had made a mistake.

A Poland of suspicion, fear, and revenge is fighting a Poland of hope, courage, and dialogue.

Perhaps no one's achievement should be judged by comparison with that of Wallenberg a titan of strength, courage, and perseverance.

Though he lacks courage, he wants to prove he can be counted on.

The image of a warrior king probably emerged from the courage in battle he showed at the Battle of Poitiers and the creation of the Order of the Star.

Some saw this as a simple acknowledgement of reality, but in fact it was a momentous step that required diplomatic skill and political courage.

The bravery of those who found their social conscience, overcame fear, and stood up to communist dictatorship remains fresh in my memory.

His eyes were fixed on me, dripping hatred. And you have the guts to look me in the eye instead of looking at the floor! .

A responsible global climate policy thus entails a fundamental change of international relations, and making the necessary institutional innovations in global governance requires courage.

After years of torturing people in one of South America s most savage dirty wars, Brazil s generals decided to stop it, because its institutionalized use was undermining the armed forces discipline and morale.

Even after the 11th of September and I was in New York and I felt the fear nevertheless, there was so much human courage, so much love and so much compassion.

Aside from the fact that torturing people is not the same as combat, and requires little bravery, this gets it exactly wrong.

Symptoms are often denied by the patient, particularly us men, because we are very brave. We are very brave, and we don't want to admit that I'm having a hell of a chest pain.

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It's perhaps for that reason that Burke has also painted a more human picture of life in the camp, highlighting personal stories that many outside of Dadaab would consider ones of bravery and courage

The ones who are silent against ISIS, the ones who do not even have the courage to raise their voices, the executives in Ankara who threaten HDP everyday while caressing ISIS' head are partners of this barbarism...

The novel s readers will not have been astonished by the ease with which the rotting hulk of Hosni Mubarak s regime was dashed against the rocks, nor by the spirit and courage of those who engineered this extraordinary piece of history.

Who would have thought that British Prime Minister David Cameron would call on eurozone governments to muster the courage to create a fiscal union (with a common budget and tax policy and jointly guaranteed public debt)?

Domestic opposition forces, while distancing themselves from the US, have been markedly emboldened in Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere.

The decisive questions now are whether she musters the courage to concentrate all the necessary responsibilities for this mega project in the energy ministry, and whom she entrusts with overseeing this Herculean task.

Entering terrorists' territory against the Japanese government's warning was not courageous it was pure idiocy, no matter how intense their sense of mission was.

RB Yeah. No, I put on my oxygen mask and stood on top of the balloon, with my parachute, looking at the swirling clouds below, trying to pluck up my courage to jump into the North Sea, which and it was a very, very, very lonely few moments.

Of the experience, he explained there was a director and a script for him to practice he said he did not have the courage to refuse to go though with it, although he did not think he committed any crime.

Wingsuit jumping is the leading edge of extreme sports an exhilarating feat of almost unbelievable daring, where skydivers soar through canyons at over 100MPH. Ueli Gegenschatz talks about how he does it, and shows jawdropping film.

)A handsome man, with great personal courage and intelligence, he was described in the Brevis Historia Occupationis et Amissionis Terræ Sanctæ ( A Short History of the Occupation and Loss of the Holy Land ) (The last sentence alludes to his third marriage to Isabella of Jerusalem in 1190, for which see below.