Sentence examples for courage was needed from inspiring English sources

This was a time when huge courage was needed to work as a priest in the highland areas where the guerrillas were running amok, pressing local villagers into their service and assassinating anybody, including members of rival Marxist factions, who stood in their way.

But when it was time to jump, but hardly any courage was needed since Michelle and her team of smiling stewardesses were waiting with steaming hot chocolate as soon as we jumped out of the water.

No courage was needed, however, when it came to choosing the cooking school.

In the second Test, Boycott made a duck in the first innings and later took 140 minutes to score 16 runs when England needed to score quickly; Wisden described the latter innings as a "dreadful effort when courage was needed".

Exceptional strength and courage were needed for hurling the grenade, and accidents were not uncommon.

Leadership and courage are needed from public schools – two of their core virtues.

The rite of custom brings us together at a defining hour when decisions are hard and courage is needed.

Courage is needed to address such problems and Thorpe, who is an intensely private man, makes it seem as if "the cancer of attention" had contributed to his depression.

A particular kind of courage is needed for coaches to bring in a 20-year-old who has never raced a senior world championship in a particular discipline, let alone an Olympics, and it takes a special quality in that 20-year-old if he is to prevent himself being over-awed by the occasion.

Haakonsson argues that leadership based upon experience and courage is needed.

To do all this courage is needed: on the leaders' and the top-level-managements' side as well as on the employees' side.