Sentences with phrase «as courageous»

Wow, almost as courageous and commendable as kicking Gandhi in the face,» wrote Variety critic Justin Chang on Twitter.

Instead, I see you as courageous for even coming in to gain self - awareness and develop healthy coping skills.

But just as courageous a step is deciding that this marriage is not a good fit.

In have no words of wisdom as I've never done anything nearly as courageous as you and the other publicly dissenting climate scientists.

Eventually, simply through the establishment of a forum of experts tasked with hearing the alternative evidence, history might record you as courageous, and as having begun a process that ultimately exposed the deceit and bias that now riddles this once most respected and trusted organization.

Just as courageous as hurling insults at someone across the street then running inside and locking the door.

Joe Romm has consistently distinguished himself as a courageous scientist / activist who advocates for much needed changes in federal energy policy.

When an economist at the Environmental Protection Agency rejected the Obama administration's stance on global warming by writing an unsolicited report challenging the scientific consensus on greenhouse dangers, groups fighting restrictions on greenhouse gases hailed him as a courageous maverick.

He also helped me to see that you have to be just as courageous to finish and then begin something new.

White Cube, Bermondsey The 78 - year - old's Germanic imagination remains as courageous as ever with this visceral and erotic exhibition that unearths perverse beauty in human decline

0000 is a hard - as - nails platformer in which you play as a courageous 1 - bit cowboy.

Magnolia is a mysterious young woman who hails from the moon — and she's as courageous as they come.

Just as courageous, fiery, hard - headed and hilarious as his larger brother, the Miniature Bull Terrier combines all the pow of the Bull Terrier in a more compact and portable package.

Thus, it is no surprise that by 1900, the American Pit Bull Terrier gained its greatest renown as a courageous and loyal companion to both adults and children, even acquiring the nickname «nanny dogs» in some locations.

The Belgian army was responsible for keeping the breed alive, and Bouviers distinguished themselves as courageous and resourceful dogs of war.

Pit Bull dogs, also recognized as American Pit Bull Terriers by certain dog clubs, have historically been known as courageous and heroic animals.

It as a courageous hunter and related to the Greyhound.

Addressing the assembled guests, the First Lady remembered Wangari Maathai as a courageous and inspiring woman who endured many hardships to save Karura Forest and other green spaces like Uhuru Park and Jevanjee Gardens in Nairobi.

Yes she entertained dreams of being a missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).

The British government maintains the memoir is mostly fiction, while many organizations hail him as a courageous whistle - blower.

Still, what looks like a whisper of change today was singled out in the Coleman Report half a century ago as a courageous movement, in large part because the town did not enact the cynical delay tactics used in other towns to maintain segregation.

With that knowledge and in that light there are few who have been as courageous and dedicated as Diane Kaplan deVries and fewer still whose lifetime of work has been as important to the future of our children.

Wahlberg turns in a solid performance as the courageous everyman, Russell continues his comeback tour with grizzled charm, and Hudson brings grace to a thankless role.

Some will likely regard it as courageous, given the dramatic developments that take place.

The sophomore film from Damien Chazelle, whose forthcoming ode to the Hollywood studio musical La La Land is already the early - buzz frontrunner for 2017's Oscar race, Whiplash comes after 2009's jazz - infused micro budget musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, and doubles as a courageous confessional, of sorts.

Shakespeare scholar Holger Syme was even less charitable, proposing in a blog entry that has since become an Oxfordian recruitment camp fronted by Orloff himself that the film's chief sin is not historical inaccuracy but its filmmakers» posture as courageous iconoclasts, railing against established wisdom.

Writer / director Paul Anderson makes a statement of female determination and willingness as this courageous team combines their talents to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem.

And Benno Furmann, excellent in the mountaineering drama «North Face,» is superb as the courageous Mundek Margulies — who, in an extraordinary act, actually breaks into a concentration camp, just to make sure someone's relative is still alive.

There is none of that to Depp's cartoonish Hatter, Bonham Carter's hammy Red Queen, or Wasikowska's Alice, who again fades despite efforts to paint her as a courageous heroine.

Although we are meant to regard his rebellion against his father as a courageous stand against inhumane factory conditions, it comes across as more like an Oedipal snit.

Colin Firth brings a potent sense of anguish to the older Eric; Jeremy Irvine plays him as a courageous, charismatic young officer.

Acting in her native German language, she delivers a career - high performance as the courageous, emotional and unforgiving survivor Katja that should easily put her in the running for an acting prize at Cannes.

Veteran movie villainess Gale Sondergaard also appears in the film, cast against type as a courageous British intelligence agent.

I've never been rappelling, but you make it look super fun... just not sure I'm as courageous as you are!

Ironically, Geison defends Pasteur's behaviour in the rabies case as courageous, saying: «Moral posturing is easy.

Afenifere, which spoke through its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Yinka Odumakin, on Tuesday, described Fayose's action as courageous and worthy of emulation.

The Peoples Democratic Party has described the counsel by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that President Muhammadu Buhari should not run for second term in 2019 as courageous, timeous and patriotic.

would that some of his colleagues be as courageous and dedicated to the issue, especially those in the city council.

The former ruling party described the letter as courageous, timeous and patriotic, adding that such had vindicated its position on President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

There are nice photographs and links to other sites including his Facebook page, projecting him as a courageous and outspoken anti-corruption crusader and a political activist.

The House of Representatives Committee on Army has described Borno Governor, Kashim Shettima as a courageous leader with qualities of a soldier in battle front.

Commissioner of Police, Bayelsa State, CP Donald Awunah who made the disclosure in Yenagoa on Tuesday, used the occasion to commend IGP Idris as a courageous apostle of democratic Policing who has ensured a paradigm shift from reactionary - traditional policing, to a driver of the «change» mantra in Police and a crusader in Police reforms.

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Legal adviser, Mr Emmanuel Enoidem has applauded former president Olusegun Obasanjo for telling President Mohammadu Buhari to drop his second term ambition, describing him as courageous statesman.Also, the Attorney General and commissioner for Justice Akwa Ibom Bar Uwemedimo Nwoko has expressed support for Obasanjo.

Meanwhile, former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has described as courageous, the capture of Sambisa Forest, even as he reaffirmed confidence in President Muhammadu and the military to crushing any challenge against the «territorial integrity of Nigeria».

The former minister described Alhassan, aka Mama Taraba, as a courageous woman and Atiku as a blessing to Nigeria.

The chancellor has been hailed as courageous for highlighting the risks of Brexit in Cabinet meetings.

In a swift reaction the APC in Rivers state hailed Inko Tariah's action as courageous for finally deciding to dump Wike and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP government.

Some of them were grumbling leaving Egyptian soil because they were having the phobia for the unknown, but I am telling you people as a courageous leader, do not be afraid.

It has become fashionable in certain liberal circles to rehabilitate both as courageous warriors against the calamity of Brexit.

But her ability to mother again after such a devastating and, I can only imagine, haunting experience seems very unique — as well as courageous.