It takes no small measure of courage to make a nuisance of yourself for something you believe in.
"From your loving me I've drawn a measure of courage that never would have come to me otherwise.
It is to avoid hysteria, to show caution and a measure of courage, not Cameron's lapse into public fear.
Given discipline, patience — and a measure of courage — it may be the only means of reaching certain patients.
The political essence of "Carol" is that it shouldn't take any greater measure of courage or heroism for two women or two men to pursue their romance than it would take a heterosexual couple in similar circumstances.
She noted, however, Tania "gained some measure of courage herself" inspired by Akeelah.
In addition, self-reported courage as indexed by the CM-C was positively correlated with scores on a vignette measure of courage, parent ratings of children's courage, extraversion, openness/intellect, and a masculine sex role, whereas a negative correlation was observed with anxiety symptoms.
Second, it seems possible to reliably assess children's level of courage by means of an age-downward version of the CM (i.e., the CM-C), and these self-report scores also seem to possess some validity, as evidenced by positive correlations with scores on an alternative measure of courage (i.e., the vignette task) and a parent-version of the CM-C.
But by the measures of ingenuity, courage and persistence, the tunnels built almost 70 years ago in sandy scrubland near the small town of Zagan, 130 miles southeast of Berlin in what was then Hitler's Germany and is today western Poland, were a legendary feat of engineering, although on a miniature scale.
In addition, indications were found for the reliability and validity of the CM-C, a self-report scale for measuring levels of courage in children.
