After a week of controversy, disputes and soul-searching, Steve McNamara's side produced a courageous display in the opening game of the 14th World Cup but were denied a famous victory by Australia, the tournament favourites, in an enthralling tie.
A surprise inclusion and wearing protective headgear after needing 15 stitches in a gaping wound above his eye, Timlin played the full 120 minutes and rounded off a courageous display by wrapping up a deserved victory.
Cahill's goal was not enough to keep Australia in the tournament, after Holland fought back from 2-1 down to seal a thrilling 3-2 vintory in Porto Alegre, but the Socceroos emerged with huge credit for a courageous display against a team who had hammered Spain 5-1 five days previously.
After this courageous display, Hamilton became a Lieutenant Colonel.
For the next 11 minutes the U.S. puts on a courageous display -- but only a world-class performance from Howard, who brilliantly stops Chicharito twice in the closing moments, is enough to preserve a spectacular victory for the underdog Americans.
It was a courageous and paradoxical display of genuine communication.
Finally, in an online world of gratuitous snark, one courageous editor has displayed the vision to give thumbs down to thumbs down.
During his service in the U.S. Senate, Senator Hagel displayed courageous and invaluable judgment in becoming an early critic of the Iraq war.
This is "as good as science gets," she writes, "a mildly outrageous, terrifically courageous, seemingly efficacious display of creative problem-solving, fueled by a bullheaded dedication to amassing facts and dispelling myths in a long-neglected area of human physiology".
It might not have been the biggest score of Tendulkar's career, but his 44 against West Indies in a one-day international in Trinidad was another courageous and skilful display of batting.
