Sentences with phrase «courage than displaying»

Criticising the pay freeze for top earners announced by the chancellor, Alistair Darling, last night, Osborne said: «To sneak out a public sector pay announcement in the middle of a Conservative conference shows these Labour politicians are better at writing books about courage than displaying it,» a reference to Gordon Brown's book Courage: Eight Portraits.

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In attacking such intuitively attractive concepts as accountability and choice, Ravitch displays more courage than her editors, who change «accountability» to «testing» in the subtitle.

The future, I have said, depends on the courage and resourcefulness which men display in overcoming the forces of isolationism, even of repulsion, which seem to drive them apart rather than draw them together.

5 «The active or «dominating» approach to things we customarily call «manly», refers to many more situations than the sexual one, and though it would not be tenable to state that a woman could not display great courage and activity, the role of leading and mastering the world is nevertheless not as congenial to her as to the man.

Whether it is a display of courage to impress a potential mate in the animal kingdom, or seeking to become stronger and larger than the average man, there is little doubt that much male behaviour is governed at a primal level by the evolutionary drive to impress females to increase the potential for mating opportunities and thereby perpetuate your genes.

Sue Short comments that «like the Final Girl of the slasher film, it is Jill rather than Mo who displays the courage and resourcefulness of a true survivor, realising the need to fight to stay alive.»