courageous
IPA: kɝˈeɪdʒʌs
adjective
- Of a person, displaying or possessing courage.
- Of an action, that requires courage.
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Examples of "courageous" in Sentences
- The Baigas are courageous woodsman and hunters.
- He was brave and courageous but acted on the spur of the moment.
- LAMB: What it takes to be -- I mean, when would you put the label courageous on?
- Kader Asmal for what it described as his courageous unannounced visit to a Soweto school last week.
- The term courageous restraint refers to a concept which is being considered for Nato forces in Afghanistan.
- "Sometimes, though, you have to have what I call courageous conversations with people and challenge what they are doing."
- McChrystal, the commander at the time, issued guidance on curbing the use of airstrikes and rewarded what he termed "courageous restraint" on the battlefield.
- It is the man, occasionally woman that controls the anger that is the one who is brave (I prefer the term courageous) whether he / she loses is not the ultimate goal.
- Manouchehr Mottaki in a news conference with the men welcomed them back and praised what he described as their courageous resistance while being held in Iraq by U.S. forces.
- Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a news conference with the men welcomed them back and praised what he described as their courageous resistance while being held in Iraq by U.S. forces.
- The budget he put together was' - I think he used the word 'courageous' - 'in getting out there and starting the conversation,' said Craig Schoenfeld, an attorney and former George W. Bush organizer in the Gingrich camp.
- And, at all of them, Barack Obama really actually went after Senator McCain on this whole issue of abandoning what he calls his courageous attempts at immigration reform, because of the fact that Republican primary voters were so opposed to it.