Sentence examples for valour at from inspiring English sources

The 11 Victoria Crosses awarded for British valour at Rorke's Drift are still more than for any other military action in history.

He studied with Michael Chekhov, a former student of Stanislavski (and a nephew of the Russian playwright), and made his stage debut playing Charles Dickens in "Bird's Eye of Valour" at the Scala Theater in London.

His Victoria Cross and other medals are on display in the Hall of Valour at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

His medals are displayed in the Hall of Valour at the Australian War Memorial, and replicas of his medals and copies of the citations for the Military Medal and three bars can be viewed in the Canberra Services Club, of which he was a member for many years.

Without ever having been awarded, the Medal of Courage was on 1 July 1972 replaced by the autonomous Cross of Valour and, at the same time, the levels of Officer and Member were introduced, with all existing holders of the Medal of Service created as Officers.

The ferocity of his acting was all part of his intellectual valour; he loved debating at school and university, and could stand up and argue with anyone, usually having the last word.

The anonymous man possessed a suicidal valour, and died a death at every performance.

Sometimes Coyle's enthusiasm has hinted at naivety away, valour more than discretion.

The EU proclaims that it is about to do something ambitious and new in the field of defence and security—and then proves, once again, that European governments are better at discretion than valour.

Many conservative writers have accused Williams of "stolen valour" - a charge levelled at individuals who make false claims of war heroism in order to bask in the resulting adulation and privileges.

The treatise sought to establish a code of behaviour for medieval knights, espousing the ideals of valour and courtesy, yet he wrote at a time when the crippling expenses associated with knighthood (including armour, weaponry and horses) meant that the warrior class was undergoing a recruitment crisis.