Suppose I define courage as "the ability to act while confronting a danger to oneself". "Confronting" is retained, so this would (normally) exclude running away.
Our nations and people know the horror of war, whether visited upon us, or whether we are called to confront a great danger.
The children at such places confront a number of dangers: vermin, feces-contaminated water, bullying, petty crime, violence, sexual abuse, and diseases ranging from scabies to tuberculosis.
As a result, Iraq now confronts a double danger.
Rescuers who tried to save two ski patrollers who fell into a crevasse formed by a volcanic vent at Mammoth Mountain said Saturday that they found themselves confronted with a danger they did not expect.
Even before the tournament, Brown knew there were dangers confronting a slapdash team that many stars deserted.
All of us here in Washington, the president and the Congress, are responsible to confront the danger of an economic slowdown and to blunt its effects".
At a speech on Monday, however, Mr. Geithner said that the economy was "healing" and was in no danger of confronting a deflationary threat like the challenges that have faced the Japanese economy.
By sharpening my sense of what actually constitutes a danger and how to confront that danger with calm, Bali made me observe the world much more attentively.
In other words, appeasement was not about weakness or pacifism or an unwillingness to confront danger; rather, it was a cold-hearted, realist strategy that saw negotiation with Hitler as the best way to ensure the survival of the British Empire.
The only way to confront this danger, it is claimed, is by starting a phased, verifiable, multilateral process to eliminate all nuclear weapons.
