You are defended by people who say that you are brave and courageous for standing up to political correctness.
There are very many courageous people standing up.
He was seen as a heroic figure in the Islamic world and as an example of the courageous fighter standing against European colonialism by the international left.
He has become in the Putin era what Andrei Sakharov once was, a courageous dissident standing up to an authoritarian regime, a living, breathing rebuke to the absence of the rule of law.
Some of Creekstone's cachet has derived from the perception that it was "courageous" in standing up to the meat industry, said the food historian Betty Fussell, whose 2008 book, "Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef" (Houghton Mifflin), sounded alarms about factory-farmed beef.
Meanwhile, Lacey Schwimmer, who is partnered with controversial contestant Chaz Bono this season, felt that Maks was courageous for standing up to the judges.
When a brave activist in a repressed country stands up to a menacing police officer pointing a gun in her face, it is not unlike a courageous spirit standing up to a diseased body.
When she was awarded the peace prize in 2003, the Nobel committee called Ms. Ebadi "a courageous person" for standing up against Iran's bullying government.
By making it possible for him to strike a courageous pose of standing up to the U.S. pressure, we help Sharon solidify his hard right, cool the dissension on his soft left and increase his popularity among embattled Israelis in the center.
Consequently, she was the first recipient of Godfrey's Mind of Steel Award at the annual Red and White Bravery Awards, given to her for the "courageous act" of standing against the Mumbai Underworld.
