Sentence examples for courageous measures from inspiring English sources
We are at an historic moment for the Games, and dire times call for courageous measures.
George Papandreou, the new prime minister, was reluctant to abandon his campaign promises of real wage rises and extra welfare spending, even after Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, visited Athens to call for "courageous measures"—code for cutting public-sector pay, as Ireland has done.
The current level of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is measured to be 400 ppm (Amato 2013; Schrabback 2010), which is projected to be increased up to ~800 ppm by the end of this century without taking a courageous step (Feely et al. 2004).
Mr President, Mrs Wallström, I am going to make a very specific proposal, since Europe needs to take courageous and imaginative measures, in order to bring European issues closer to everybody and to make progress on the creation of a European public opinion.
This time Mr Raffarin, if the voters and the president decide to give him his head, will have to be persuasive but courageous in equal measure.Where does this leave Mr Le Pen?
Every courageous and incisive measure to solve the internal problems of our own society, to improve self-confidence, discipline, morale and community spirit of our own people is a diplomatic victory over Moscow, worth a thousand diplomatic notes and joint communiques".
The CM-C was administered in two independent samples of children along with a vignette task that also measured courageous behaviors and a number of other questionnaires for assessing Big Five personality traits, anxiety symptoms, social desirability, and sex roles.
Our courageous Uncle Bill.
Children of Sample 1 filled in the CM-C, the courage vignette measure, the most courageous action question as well as questionnaires for measuring personality traits, anxiety symptoms, and social desirability.
Measures far more courageous than Brown's timid suggestion of "reductions" are required, measures such as the elimination of nuclear weapons of which Obama spoke.
