"You can demonstrate determination and willingness to make difficult choices, to show backbone and courage, to confront adversity calmly and skillfully.
The ingredients change, but a chick flick generally features a heroine, or even better, a group of heroines, bravely confronting adversity.
The fear among Republicans is that Mr. Trump will confront adversity by continuing to swing impulsively at politically inopportune targets, dragging the party again into needless and damaging feuds, as he did for most of the summer.
Their director of rugby, Richard Cockerill, had demanded a response after the heavy opening-round defeat by Glasgow and he was not disappointed as the Tigers, the masters over the years of confronting adversity head on, subdued the French champions who had defeated them in last season's semi-final.
As we staggered across the finish line of our divorce, we'd learned how to confront adversity together.
The questionnaire focused on lay explanatory models [ 25, 26] of depression, lay strategies for confronting adversity, and possible reasons for avoiding professional help.
They were feelings that I couldn't allow myself to experience while confronting adversities of imprisonment, trial, conviction and dehumanizing helplessness.
This incident, according to Jerry Sandusky, taught him to be courageous when confronted with adversity and always tell the truth.
And when young girls -- with their incredibly plastic brains -- read about or watch Nassima's story, they will actually be practicing for confronting adversities and fears of their own, and they'll be that much more likely to succeed in confronting those adversities, knowing they're not alone.
Adversity confronted, but not overcome; a net gain of zero.
