Sentence examples for less the courage from inspiring English sources

Does he have the capacity, much less the courage, to release Mikhail Khodorkovsky?

No one on the current political landscape has even the vision, much less the courage, to tell the truth, much less fight for it.

"That morning the ranks on those men's shoulders reflected them less than the courage in their hearts," he said.

The challenge for the surviving Governor Cuomo is to build on that legacy, that memory and that emotion that many of us felt on January 1: to reach for vision a little more, and settle for pragmatic deals a little less; to exercise the courage of his convictions, and be willing to lose the "good fight" every so often.

And the fantasy has a grip on us because the older we get, the less courage we have.

Similarly, he said, those special interests could make a candidate "less likely to show the courage to say we want to get the pollution out of our environment and have clean air and clean water and take on the problem of global warming".

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I think that to have Peter on board has given me the courage to be less afraid about standing up on this issue".

More freedom of expression and not less demonstrates courage in the face of attacks.

Despite her confession that she is "scared of everything", she was audacious and indefatigable, fuelled less by courage, perhaps, than the naïve belief born in the cloister of privilege that everything will always be OK, if only one endeavours to make it so.

The actual nudity may have taken less courage than the psychological nudity Ms. Mattila exposed in the final scene, when, delirious with power, she held Jochanaan's head in her hands and sang Strauss's soaring phrases with Wagnerian thrust and unflagging energy.