Sentences with phrase «like fortitude»

And even on non-Moon Festival days, it can be hard to find a pack of average - priced cookies or snacks that doesn't require Manchurian - like fortitude to get through layers of plastic.

Inner City areas like Fortitude Valley offer a cosmopolitan club and bar atmosphere all within 15 minutes walk from downtown Brisbane.

(If you like this, you might like Fortitude, another chilly mystery available on Amazon.)

«I like basically that he's independent, I like his attitude, I like his fortitude, I like the outlook he has for America, to turn it around and bring it into a totally different situation.»

Not exact matches

Not many other fields will test your mental fortitude, resourcefulness and creativity quite like entrepreneurship.

Still, the game pushed me further like no trainer or personal mental fortitude had before.

Success stories like Harrison's are few and far between for social entrepreneurs, defined as «someone who targets an unfortunate but stable equilibrium that causes the neglect, marginalization, or suffering of a segment of humanity; who brings to bear on this situation his or her inspiration, direct action, creativity, courage, and fortitude; and who aims for and ultimately affects the establishment of a new stable equilibrium that secures permanent benefit for the targeted group and society at large,» by Roger L. Martin and Sally Osberg in a 2007 Stanford University report titled «Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.»

When Rodrigues and Garrpe arrive in Japan in 1639, they have been formed by years of European romanticizing of the Japanese martyrs, found in books like the 1630 volume The Palme of Christian Fortitude, Or, The Glorious Combats of Christians in Iaponia.

I lack the necessary fortitude to do that, but still, I would like to draw your attention this morning to the Book of Jonah.

(3) formation flexibility — it took 20 years for Wenger to return to a back 3 and now he can't seem to choose anything but that formation... the teams in the premiership and those we could face in the Europa will present vastly different tactics and we need to have a manager who can prepare this squad for this eventuality and have the fortitude to make the necessary adjustments throughout the season... I have seen nothing in the past 6 - 7 years to suggest that he is the man to take on this challenge... I can't even remember when he changed formations when he would replace a small, pacy striker, like during the Walcott experiment, with the lumbering Giroud... of course this is exactly why there is no other manager in the world that plays more players out of their natural positions (square peg in a round hole)

It's quite early to make a bold proclamation like that, but Lacazette has played with such a sloth - like demeanor in recent weeks that one can not help but wonder if he has the mental fortitude to turn his poor play around.

All hail Alexis... what a MOM display... indeed the next 2 weeks will be big and will go a long way to show our mental fortitude... 2 important UCL games and the Leader Man U at home and Everton away... hope Le Coq + Gabriel will be back for the Man U game and that we can keep scoring like that!!

In other news, our team seems to be rounding nicely into form, with a productive off - season and several new additions already settling in, there seems to be a renewed sense of confidence in the air... our well - oiled machine has conducted business again early this year, so we can just sit back, kick our feet up and watch all those other suckers scramble to make panic moves in the 11th hour... of course, we need to tie up a few loose ends but our team of savvy negotiators, under the tutelage of our faithful leader, will perform their usual magic with ample time to spare... I have to laugh when I look around the soccer world and see all those teams look upon us with envy and scorn as they struggle to mimic our seemingly infallible business model... thank goodness the powers that be had the foresight and fortitude to resist the temptations of the modern football era... instead of listening to all the experts and simply taking the easy way out by making the necessary improvements on the field and in the front office, we chose the path never traveled... we are truly pioneers in our field... sometimes you just have to have faith in the people that have always conducted themselves in a respectful and honest fashion... most fans aren't so fortunate, they will never know what it's like to follow a team that treats everyone in and around the club as if they were an extended member of the family... all for one I say... so when you wake up this morning, please try not to gloat when you see rival fans pacing back and forth waiting for their respective teams to pull the usual panic buys, just say nothing and be thankful that it isn't you... like I've always said, this is why you stay the course... this is when the real benefits of having someone in charge for over 2 decades really pays off... have a great day fellow Gunners

None of the so called world class strikers with exception of Costa have the mental fortitude to lead a top club like the Arsenal.

Spitzer twice referred to Cuomo as «presumably» the next governor, but said he won't endorse the AG until after he answers questions about issues like health care and charter schools and» shows the fortitude to answer them the right way.»

«Donald Trump has clearly demonstrated that he has both the guts and the fortitude to return our nation's jobs stolen by China, take on our enemies like ISIS, Iran, North Korea and Russia, and most importantly, reestablish the opportunity for our children and grandchildren to attain the American Dream,» Collins said in a statement.

If Cameron doesn't bring back various big beasts of the Major era, would anyone like to suggest who should instead be our key players who have the strength, experience, knowledge and testicular fortitude to lead the country out of this mess?

In a nutshell, working with a sled will test the strength of your torso, grip, endurance and testicular fortitude like no other.

It drives him now to share his inspirational message of fortitude, resistance, perseverance and more with natural health practitioners and others like yourself.

Take OTK boots; it took me until the year 2018 AD to finally give them a try — and that is only because I lack the internal fortitude to say «no» to a like - new pair of real leather, made in Spain boots for $ 17.

You know those weeks... the weeks where you feel like you've had to kick your perseverance up about ten notches, block out the bad juju and press on with fortitude to make it happen.

The film presents her not as a victim, however, but as someone with the inner strength and fortitude to overcome and bend circumstances to her liking.

Some of «Fortitude» feels too planned, more written than organic, and a little, sorry, «cold», but there's a lot to like here, especially if you're curious about how to use environment as a character in mystery storytelling.

A woman of Hayes» fortitude is not necessarily going to be devoid of an admirer of her own, but in a backwater like Ebbing that turns out to be James (a deadpan Peter Dinklage), who says of himself, «I know I'm a midget who sells used cars and has a drinking problem, I know that.»

Unfaithful has so much more waiting to come out — like a perfectly tuned mystery novel, it has the all - knowing compassion of a author - deity and the fortitude to not drop everything at the wrong time.

I feel like I could study its nuances and idiosyncrasies for the next decade and still not learn all I possibly could about director Olivier Assayas» latest masterpiece, the movie an utterly beguiling marvel of imagination and dramatic fortitude that just gets better and better with each viewing.

Fortitude also forms the mortar of her performance in Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe as Nakku Harriet, the Mother Courage of a family of hungry, unschooled children in a teeming, poor, ramshackle township in Uganda where skyscrapers stand in the hazy distance like the Emerald City of Oz.

Each one offers their own unique personality and strength to the party like courage, wisdom, fortitude, and leadership.

A teaser trailer has arrived online for the second season of the critically - acclaimed Arctic drama series Fortitude; watch it below after the official synopsis... Fortitude is a place like nowhere else.

Like the famed French circuit that is the series» namesake, Road America's soaring straights and high - speed curves are a test of both horsepower and fortitude.

The latest models from brands like Ram and Jeep offer unsurpassed degrees of technological integration, high - strength construction, and unrivaled mechanical fortitude.

But the patience and fortitude in this book about the New York Public Library and its most recent step into controversy may be better attributed to those who campaigned against what looks remarkably like a real - estate boondoggle, at least from the outside looking in.

Being forced to sit between my mortal enemy and my ex-girlfriend every afternoon made seventh - period math feel like my own private Kobayashi Maru, a brutal no - win scenario designed to test my emotional fortitude.

If you can not muster the discipline and mental fortitude to follow a proven strategy like price action for at least 6 months consistently, you will have a hard time finding any success in the market.

And finally, while automatic techniques like these are valuable tools, they will never fully replace good old fashioned intestinal fortitude.

And few have the emotional fortitude to stay true to that discipline during extreme periods like this.

Even if I did have a workable strategy to beat the index, and the smarts and emotional fortitude to follow through, there are still lots of ways to muck it all up (like not really doing it at all and leaving things on autopilot).

To think that these animals have lived like this, it's a testament to their fortitude that they could survive.

Video games are certainly cognitively demanding and require fortitude in mental and perceptual skills like concentration, working memory, vision, problem solving, multitasking, and focusing one's attention.

Within the works arise phrases like «What fortitude the Soul contains,» from Dickinson, and «O Rose thou art sick,» by Blake.

You'd like to drive an all - electric Tesla Model S but don't have the fortitude of wallet required to afford one?

You can thank that cute - looking subwoofer, which isn't quite as musical or precise as we'd like, but offers plenty of fortitude, even rattling the blinds in our listening room during some of the more powerful explosions in Guardians of the Galaxy.

Words like «tumultuous, traumatic and fortitude» are so descriptive.

OREA and CREA could earn their keep by initiating that but they lack the fortitude and do not want to even smell like they are about to run afoul of the CB.