Sentence examples for cool nerves from inspiring English sources

Throughout, the Turkish team had shown not only grit, but also great resourcefulness, as well as cool nerves and solid play-making, convincing even doubters that its advance into the final four was no mere fluke.

If you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a great gambler, the sixth sense of a kind of clairvoyant, and the courage of a lion," then you've got a chance.

ISTANBUL, Aug. 25 — The Formula One season resumes with Sunday's Turkish Grand Prix, and teams are hoping the three-week summer break will have pacified emotions, after incidents at the past two races showed why great racing requires cool nerves, psychology and self-discipline.

A breakup of the UK would weaken its global status and a yes vote would leave the UK government embroiled in a complex internal dispute about the terms of Scottish independence just as "solidity and cool nerves" were needed on the world stage.

Those cool nerves are coming in handy as Adelson aims to re-energize Digg, the five-year-old San Francisco-based social networking company.

Some people have jobs that require fast reflexes and cool nerves in high-stress situations.

"This was exactly Dudley's version too, though the cool nerve of 'improving' made Daphne laugh".

Selvey had the nous to notice that all the qualities once attributed by Kenneth Tynan to Olivier could be applied to Richards: a powerful physical magnetism, superb timing, cool nerve, outrageous effrontery and a palpable sense of danger.

But the 20... 8209 year... 8209;old, a former Everton football trainee who received a late call-up on Thursday when Sean Long failed a fitness test on his hamstring injury, still needed a cool nerve to maintain his 100% kicking record, after converting Leon Pryce's sparkling individual try and adding a first penalty to give Saints an 8-6 half-time lead.

Cooling the skin below 20°C causes a marked reduction in the production of acetylcholine and in the rate of conduction along cooling nerves, which varies according to the size of fibres, thus producing asynchrony of impulses (Wozniak et al. 2007).

To win the whole thing with only 30 seconds of a seven-week tournament at his disposal revealed the coolest nerve, a kicking technique grooved through thousands of hours of practice and an ability to ignore criticism.