Sentences with phrase «gallant fight»
After the sinking, Admiral John Tovey said, The Bismarck had put up a most gallant fight against impossible odds worthy of the old days of the Imperial.
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i play the character in three general characterization; one moment I am a pompous ass hat, the next a gallant rebel fighting the ultimate evil, the back to the anguished bigot.
The gallant troops overpowered the insurgents, killing two of them and capturing 11 men after a fierce fire fight, during an operation to clear the surrounding villages of fleeing Boko Haram terrorists.
Wilson (1998 - 2002) fought a gallant rear guard against Blairite politicisation which Turnbull (2002 - 05) continued., O'Donnell (2005 - 11) oversaw the transition from Blair to Brown and the first peacetime coalition since the 1930s and finally Heywood (2012 to the present) motivated the coalition and oversaw two referendums.
Surviving widows and families of gallant soldiers who paid the ultimate price in the fight against insurgency in the North East have been enjoined to be self - reliant by making effective use of skills and support kits acquired during the empowerment training facilitated by the North East Regional Initiative (NERI) and its partners.
[They are] fighting against bigger odds than any other bird, and fighting always with the most gallant pluck.»
From an evolutionary perspective, cowardice at first seems like a smarter strategy: If you run away and live, you'll have more offspring than the gallant warrior who fights to the death.
When he finally decides to help Brashear make his Master Diver rank (after Brashear has had a leg amputated following an on - board accident and so needs retraining), Sunday recovers from his alcoholic haze and turns gallant himself, to fight off a malicious bureaucratic whippersnapper (Holt McCallany) who refuses to grant Brashear his more - than - deserved promotion.