Sentence examples for if courageous from inspiring English sources

But this apparent dispute might be eliminated if courageous school boards, as the final arbiters, stood ready to protect their professional staff against special — interest headhunting and unfair public pressures.

Given that it fits into Nissan's line-up as a slightly shrunken Qashqai – one of Britain's most popular cars, the Sunderland plant simply can't churn them out quickly enough – it feels like a wasted, if courageous, opportunity.

The only avenue for "justice," Kiriakou explained, is if "courageous" legal officials in foreign countries filed war crimes or crimes against humanity charges.

If courageous men and women could sit at an all-white restaurant counter to challenge racism or march for the right to vote even at the risk of losing their lives, I can certainly go on Fox News and tolerate a few insults to remind the nation that our immigrant neighbors are deserving of the equal protection of our laws.

Our culture likes to celebrate the idea that if you are courageous, if you try, if you endure, things will work out.

As in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy and the extreme spring flooding in Europe, a question new to our times is being asked: "What if those courageous men -- husbands, fathers and sons -- would not have died if not for Fossil Fuel Era climate change?" It is a delicate matter to discuss the connection with climate change so soon after such a tragedy.

She may not have had the answer to Pakistan's problems, let alone the world's, but Benazir Bhutto was nothing if not courageous.

If the "courageous" are those who choose to die rather than to suffer or to become burdensome to others, what are those who don't?

With less than a week before Ohioans go to the polls in the Democratic primary, Mr. Miller and a small group of other black elected officials who are stumping for Mrs. Clinton are nothing if not courageous.

Syria's best hope is if its courageous new political activists move to win the hearts and minds of their fellow citizens – and steer clear of the traps laid for them by geopolitical manoeuvring.

In the welcome spirit in which people around the world are taking it upon themselves to question and even shake off entrenched and fossilised regimes that have long outstayed their welcome, I wonder if their courageous example could not have something to teach us?