"courageous gesture" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to describe a brave action taken by someone, for example: "His donating to the charity was a truly courageous gesture."
It had been a courageous gesture and one of which Defoe was ever afterward proud, but it undoubtedly branded him in Tory eyes as a dangerous man who must be brought down.
"It was a courageous gesture," on the part of players, "a small episode with an enormous value," said Andrea Monti, editor in chief of Gazzetta dello Sport, the sports daily that on Friday dedicated six pages of interviews and commentary to the episode.
He called it "a courageous gesture and a necessary one in history", adding that this was "probably Mr Obama's most important move as president".
Trimofoloalina was then released and the king asked him to name a reward for his courageous gesture.
When I was in Bogotá last year for the Beethoven festival, Colombian pianist Blanca Uribe played a lovely recital and when her adoring audience demanded an encore, she responded with a kind and courageous gesture, meant to heal wounds and bring together old friends.
When Pakistan desperately needed a courageous political gesture in response to the murders of the governor and minister, the president failed even to attend their funerals.Pakistan's rotten governance shows up in its growth rates (see chart 2).
Speaking to tens of thousands of tourists and pilgrims in St. Peter's Square the Pope said he is proposing Catholic politicians around the world should "make a courageous and exemplary gesture" and ensure that no convicted inmate is put to death in the year of mercy – which runs through until November.
He called for politicians to work for the abolition of the death penalty, and went on, "And I propose to all those among them who are Catholic to make a courageous and exemplary gesture: may no execution sentence be carried out in this Holy Year of Mercy".
The decent Social Democratic politics that the West German chancellor Willy Brandt represented in the early nineteen-seventies — especially his courageous and necessary gestures of atonement toward the Poles and the Jews — owed a lot to Grass, who wrote many of Brandt's speeches.
She argued for a wide and libertarian freedom, a gesture that seems particularly courageous given the number of people who have attacked her and her books.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter described Boateng's stance as courageous, but did not believe such gestures would provide a long-term solution to the problem.
