Sentence examples for display fortitude from inspiring English sources
The gift was apparently meant as a barbed joke, symbolizing the Republican governor's hope that California legislators would display fortitude in deciding how to close a $24 billion budget deficit.
From childhood, men are more exposed to playing competitive games based on physical performance, which encourages them to display fortitude, control the experience of physical pain, and endure intense effort.
The Knicks were 7-13 in such situations last season, and Van Gundy had challenged his team to display some fortitude in those games.
In an amazing display of fortitude, she became the first Canadian woman to win an Olympic figure skating medal in 22 years, finishing behind South Korea's Kim Yu-na, who won gold, and Japan's Mao Asada, who won silver.
She used it for a bristling display of fortitude and defiance, but she didn't exactly shoot down Dr. Karasu's analysis, either.
But her brother Craig, who also took part in the experiment, displayed less fortitude.
Such displays of fortitude convinced markets that governments were serious about keeping inflation low.
And the United Nations, displaying the fortitude that has made it such a universally admired organization, went into full kowtow.
Wagoner, in Rattner's judgment, simply didn't have what it would take: Born and bred as an insider, Wagoner never displayed any fortitude for remaking GM's hidebound corporate culture.
Former Senator Alan K. Simpson of Wyoming, a confidant of former President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, said the current President Bush had displayed a fortitude that comes from having overcome his drinking more than a decade ago.
