Sentence examples for extraordinary valor from inspiring English sources

Everyday Parisians also pitched in, many of them displaying extraordinary valor.

Anthony Shadid, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, was honored with a special award "for extraordinary valor for his work in the Middle East".

At least 48 boys under 18 — 11 of whom were under 16 — received the Congressional Medal of Honor for their extraordinary valor in action.

Jefferson regarded Jackson as no more than a military man who, for all his extraordinary valor, had a reputation as a despot: brutal, tempestuous, and vengeful.

On Friday, Long Island University announced that the George Polk awards in journalism would recognize Mr. Shadid with a special, posthumous award for "extraordinary valor for his work in the Middle East".

In the first encounter about seventy of our men fell: among them Quintus Fulgenius, first centurion of the second line of the fourteenth legion, who, for his extraordinary valor, had been promoted from the lower ranks to that post.

The division's medal application -- which cites his "extraordinary heroism and uncommon valor" -- is steadily making its way through the Army's bureaucracy.

He was posthumously awarded the Marine Corps' second-highest decoration for valor, the Navy Cross, for extraordinary heroism during the battle of Iwo Jima.

Sergeant Cartagena, a member of the regiment's First Battalion, received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army's highest award for valor after the Medal of Honor, for "extraordinary heroism" in a single-handed assault that enabled his company to seize a hill near Yonchon, South Korea, on April 19 , 1951

Those who exhibit extraordinary courage and valor should be honored accordingly.

We mourn the passing of an extraordinary woman of valor who devoted her life to the needs of the Jewish people worldwide.