Sentence examples for temerity to do from inspiring English sources

"I'm in this hell because I had the temerity to do my job as a judge in a way that didn't please Chávez".

If you have the temerity to do so, you're likely to hear that the bailouts were the only thing standing between us and financial obliteration.

In those interviews and during other talks and events, I heard about the attacks many climate scientists have faced for having the temerity to do their jobs.

"I'm in this hell because I had the temerity to do my job as a judge in a way that didn't please Chávez," Ms. Afiuni said in an interview in 2010.

The P. & O. contentedly ran the Overland Route for nearly 30 years -- until a Frenchman named Ferdinand de Lesseps did in 1869 what no Englishman had the foresight or temerity to do.

Here was someone riffing on everything women didn't talk about in public - food, sex, booze, periods, men, as well as politics - and who had the temerity to do it without starving herself first or donning a pretty dress.

So why did it bug me to watch Jamie Oliver condescendingly castigate the owner of an independent restaurant in Los Angeles for having the temerity to serve milkshakes that contain actual ice cream as opposed to, say, yogurt and fruit?

I have not the temerity to make any predictions.

Now we have the temerity to believe we can somehow perceive that non-human reality, although to do so would be a contradiction in terms.

This was borne out in their frankly unhinged attacks on Planned Parenthood, the HPV vaccine, insurance coverage of contraception and, as I discussed last week, the puritanical mood they created that encouraged President Obama to restrict access to Plan B, or the morning-after pill, none of which have much to do with abortion and everything to do with women's temerity to have sex.

May had the temerity to say something no previous Tory home secretary had admitted: that police numbers had very little to do with the level of crime.