Sentence examples for heroic step from inspiring English sources

As part of the deal, Anbang pledged to pump up to 1 billion euros into Vivat and to take on 552 million euros of debt, a move hailed by Chinese media at the time as a heroic step toward bringing the insurer back from the brink of bankruptcy.

And by then, his diminishing energies were channelled elsewhere; by his political activism on behalf of Peter Tatchell's excellent OutRage! pressure group; by taking the heroic step of publicly declaring his antibody status as soon as he was diagnosed with HIV.

Two French and two Italian journalists were stuck with us, one of whom took the heroic step of jumping in a canoe and going to the other side of the river to find the ferry driver and try to convince him to come back for us.

The Summit was held as a follow up to the Girl Summit in London held in July 2014 where the Government of Ethiopia took a heroic step by making a ground breaking commitment to end child, early and forced marriage and FGM/C in the country by 2025.

Yes, thou shalt not steal". Security cameras captured his next heroic steps - confronting the armed robber with nothing but his bare hands, wrestling the cleaver away and after the thief fell from his getaway scooter, holding him by the collar until the police arrived.

Judaism teaches us that we are under no obligation to employ heroic steps to keep a critically ill person alive, and that we should let each person transition with dignity and a minimal amount of pain and suffering; at the same time, we are prohibited from doing anything which would hasten death.

"I guess there is some concern that if anyone was heroic enough to step in and buy, this is another reason not to".

The Vatican paired the announcement of Pius XII's "heroic virtue" — the step before beatification, which would be followed by canonization, or sainthood — with a similar declaration about Pope John Paul II, who was considered a great friend to the Jews.

The subject of Everett Shinn's "Tightrope Walker," from 1924, seems heroic as he steps into view.

It becomes an image of the heroic artist bravely stepping out of his life to experience the other side of existence.

At this point Mr. Samuelson's story enters its heroic phase: Ronald Reagan and Paul Volcker stepped onto the stage and seized control of history.