Sentence examples for temerity in from inspiring English sources

Both emperors cruelly humiliated and punished hundreds of officials for their temerity in remonstrating.

But you have to admire their temerity in bringing, of all things, The Mikado, to the stage.

He even objects to his own temerity, in having owned and remodelled a neglected woodland that was the most precious of his lost possessions.

The 5 million Scots will be punished for their temerity in voting themselves out of the union with England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

And the hounding of Mohammad Yunus, a pioneer of microfinance, creator of the Grameen Bank and a Nobel laureate, is seen as payback for his temerity in 2007 in trying to launch a "third force" in politics.

At the argument of a death-penalty case known as Cone v. Bell, Roberts had berated at length the defendant's lawyer, Thomas Goldstein, for his temerity in raising an issue that had not been addressed in the petition.

A couple of years ago he was held up as a case study of music-business temerity: Malcolm Gladwell, in the "Kenna's Dilemma" chapter of his best seller "Blink," describes futile attempts to parlay industry buzz into a Top 40 single.

Thus, the wonder is not the unhinged behavior of this weekend but rather that it took Trump so long to exploit a target as rich in potential racial resentment as wealthy black athletes who have the temerity to believe in the First Amendment.

We dropped anyone who had the temerity to fall in love with us.

To be fair, this time he doesn't punish all of his characters for having the temerity to be in his story.

Mixed communities are cohesive and more equal communities: punishing working people for the temerity of living in social housing sows division and is plain unfair.