Sentence examples for more fortitude from inspiring English sources

-- shows that New Yorkers have far more fortitude than Californians.

Aunt Gracie Shoaf also had a burglar phobia, but she met it with more fortitude.

For those with more fortitude, the simplest solution is to take the long view — as in 10 or 20 years, which is a lot of delayed gratification.

The Navy has shown more fortitude; in the first two months of this year alone it fired six commanders of ships and installations.

No one confronted life's struggles with more fortitude or honesty, and as a result, we all learned from the challenges she faced," added former president George HW Bush.

There is humour in Jónas's recollections, such as his reverence for the dead who "generally possess more fortitude than the living, as is clear by the way they still lie in their grave while man scurries around like a frightened field mouse".

Our hunger for the dark, vaguely depressing, Scandinavian dramas such as Wallander, The Killing, The Bridge and more recently Fortitude, set in Iceland, is seemingly insatiable.

And the three, Mormons all, are facing varying degrees of revolt where they might least like it or expect it — in their own backyard among mostly Mormon Tea Party members who are pushing for still more conservative fortitude.

Armed with considerable intellect and moral certitude, and a great deal more of fortitude, he gradually gained the support and confidence of a small but growing group of like-minded individuals.

Kandinsky's best art, which climaxes in the period of the First World War and the Russian Revolution, demands more indulgent fortitude, amounting almost to physical courage, than that of any of the other half-dozen greatest artists of the early twentieth century.

He, along with Senators Joseph I. Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln and Mary L. Landrieu, will continue to paralyze Congress in its effort to pass meaningful health care reform until someone with more intestinal fortitude than anyone thus far involved in the process tells these obstructionists to take their business elsewhere and reconciliation is used to bring about true reform.