Sentence examples for courageous in supporting from inspiring English sources

The guild membership was courageous in supporting Rushdie during those terrible days.

On May 6, he sent a letter from prison describing how authorities had tried to persuade him to eat, and urging European Union (EU) High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton to take a "courageous stand" in supporting freedom of the press in Egypt.

I hope that Senators Trent Lott and Mitch McConnell will join their courageous comrade, Senator Thad Cochran, in supporting campaign reform.

Ms. Gun is someone who believes deeply in those principles and was willing to take a courageous step in support of her beliefs.

In NSW, Liberal premier Mike Baird has been courageous enough to support medicinal cannabis.

What Terry was doing, I told them, was courageous, and I supported his decision even as I spent my nights in the library working wholly within the system to plot out my very own meek life goals.

It is courageous, in a way.

Mandela was very courageous in that meeting.

The umpire was courageous in admitting his error.

She has been courageous in challenging conventional wisdom.

An inspiration and role model, modest in her triumphs and courageous in the face of adversity.