Sentence examples for personal toughness from inspiring English sources

We don't see life quite the same way, we think people need a little more help and that there's more to public life than personal toughness.

Martial arts, which was also designed as a set of self- and others'-protection skills, has become more about proving personal toughness or manliness -- or even womanliness.

Proving personal toughness and the ability to withstand physical and verbal intimidation is something poor terror recruits have sometimes done for years while enduring life in the rough and tumble environment of a ghetto or violent family culture.

Laura is, of course, in a deeply ironic position: she does not "deserve" the tarnished beauty queen crown, but she has found personal reserves of toughness.

The other prime ministers also like his political style, which combines a lack of personal vanity with toughness and negotiating skill.

Clinton used the Republican lexicon of toughness and personal responsibility to camouflage a program whose overall thrust was egalitarian and redistributive.

Ultimately, Mr. Bush's success seems to stem from what voters describe as a combination of personal appeal and a toughness that increased his stature after the terrorist attacks last year.

Since first restrictions were imposed in October 1960 – in retaliation to the decision of the revolutionary Cuban government to nationalize the property of American citizens and companies –that same contradiction between official toughness and personal flexibility has endured.

When the big, bad Bruins of Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Johnny Bucyk, Ken Hodge and Derek Sanderson powered their way to Stanley Cups in 1970 and '72 with a potent combination of offense, two-fisted toughness and personal charisma, the team set the standard for local sports success, along with their co-tenants at the old Boston Garden, the Celtics.

At the peak is technical and rugby excellence, but the next two layers comprise only what he considers essential personal qualities: self-belief, toughness, self-control, hard work, enthusiasm and honesty.

Justin Welby, a risk-taker and reconciler by nature, is gifted with unusual mental toughness, shaped through personal suffering.