In some of the more bizarre food news this month: Police in Vietnam's northern Bac Ninh province recently seized 42 live, critically endangered Sunda Pangolins from poachers, fined the culprits, and delivered the animals to forest rangers for safekeeping at which point those forest rangers proceeded to undo all this valiant action by selling the animals off to local restaurants.
Continuing lawsuits by the nine remaining states are unlikely to amount to more than valiant rearguard action.
Recalled to active duty in July 1941, MacArthur conducted a valiant delaying action against the Japanese in the Philippines after war erupted in December.
In the red states of the South, where the Democrats have been fighting a valiant rearguard action, gravity appears to be exerting itself, with G.O.P. candidates such as Thom Tillis, Tom Cotton, and David Perdue benefiting from the strong anti-Obama sentiment among white voters.
Between 27 May and 5 June, the Royal Navy worked flat out, while the army fought a valiant rearguard action to delay the German advance and allow as many British and French troops as possible to escape.
The path of least resistance now will be to fight some valiant rear-guard action protecting this or that weapons system, but the smarter play will be to convince other law-makers and the public at large that it makes more sense to re-invest in our nation's exhausted military for the next few years than to continue to fund entitlement schemes that we are going to need to eventually cut anyway.
The medical establishment has put up a valiant century-old rearguard action against being held to account.
Villaret was leading this line in his flagship Montagne, which had escaped from Queen Charlotte, and it was Montagne which Royal Sovereign engaged next, pursuing her close to the new French line accompanied by Valiant, and beginning a long-range action.
Valiant Hearts' story is told through the actions of four main characters, whose paths entwine at several points.
That show, organized by William Rubin, cast Masson as a valiant but ultimately unenlightened Surrealist forebear to action painting, an art-history Moses permitted to gaze on the promised land of Abstract Expressionism but unable or unwilling to enter it.
