But true masculinity, like true sportsmanship, contains other virtues, too: forthrightness, honesty, fair play, courage in difficult situations, readiness to acknowledge error, concern for the weak as well as admiration for the strong.
Chad Pennington, the quarterback taken in the first round in 2000, has played so little that it is difficult to assess his readiness.
He welcomed Dmitri's rich English vocabulary, his offering multiple options for difficult locutions, and his readiness to let his father have the last word.
Le Maire has impressed the president through determined handling of a difficult dossier and his readiness to sideline old personal connections for the sake of effective governance.
The criterion validity of transition-readiness tools is difficult to establish when there is no 'gold standard' measure of transition readiness.
From SARS to dirty bombs, the Haddon matrix reveals itself as a useful public health readiness tool for tackling difficult public health emergencies.
To Steven Orel, director of the World of Opportunity Adult Education program here, the competing explanations -- poverty, the pressure of standardized exams and a readiness to write off the most difficult students -- are all true.
This prior readiness to rely on colleagues in difficult circumstances when in the field, due to their perceived shared understanding, may prove to be a valuable protective factor that can be further supported and extended upon through training.
Dexter ™is a nonanatomical, endoscopic dexterity training system designed to encourage practice and help establish and maintain a state of procedural readiness, even if clinical exposure to difficult airway situations is sporadic.
Following a series of questions on their readiness to obey even the most difficult of his requests, Baba selected twenty companions to join him in a life of complete "hopelessness and helplessness".
