Sentence examples for amount of fortitude from inspiring English sources

Getting a fresh Long Island turkey requires a certain amount of fortitude.

It takes a great amount of thought, a great amount of fortitude, to stay alive in Alaska.

Emotionally, it requires an enormous amount of fortitude on the part of childbearers in a culture where some regard surrogacy as a kind of prostitution.

I think he has shown an enormous amount of fortitude to go through some of the criticism he has had as the player he is.

Still, such a trip requires a certain amount of fortitude, as I discovered when I set out to blaze a trail from estate to estate last March, during the "first flush" harvest, said to produce the most delicate, flavorful leaves.

"He showed a certain amount of fortitude in addressing the emergency and stepping out early, I'll give him that," said State Sen. Henry P. McNamara, a Republican from Bergen County who is co-chairman of the Senate Environment Committee.

"He's our exceptional leader, he has shown huge amounts of fortitude and resilience over the summer, and I'd like to make it perfectly clear we are 100% behind Alastair Cook as captain.

"Our guys showed a huge amount of intestinal fortitude," said the All Blacks' coach, Graham Henry.

And as a result, a certain amount of mental fortitude is required to crack the spine of this book (which was written with Vince Rause, a freelance journalist).

"They showed a tremendous amount of character and fortitude.

Here is a living artist who has faced down serious difficulties — bouncing back after his career stalled in the early 1970s, having assets seized by the I.R.S. and enduring the suicide of a son in the 1990s — with a surprising amount of equanimity and fortitude.