A heroic effort is a collective effort, number one.

These heroic acts are present all over the country.

Even as a child, it seemed, Lincoln dreamed heroic dreams.

Banality of heroism is, it's ordinary people who do heroic deeds.

It has these strong, heroic arms that can lift doughnuts into your mouth.

I want to pay tribute to the heroic work of those men and women.

The role of heroic leadership in war leads to overemphasis of command and control and hard military power. In America today, the presidential debate is between Senator John McCain, a war hero, and Senator Barack Obama, a former community organizer.

John is one of about a dozen very heroic, courageous people who volunteered for the study.

That is most acutely symbolized by the continued detention of the heroic Aung San Suu Kyi.

And so practical wisdom does not require heroic acts of self sacrifice on the part of practitioners.

Heroism as the antidote to evil, by promoting the heroic imagination, especially in our kids, in our educational system.

Let me start by stating that my country, Malawi, has made heroic efforts in meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

Well, avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.

Such situations, if allowed to go unchecked, would set at naught the heroic efforts of our valiant United Nations peacekeepers.

We want our kids to realize most heroes are everyday people, and the heroic act is unusual. This is Joe Darby.

We advocate heroes and commemorate martyrs, which means we must always remember history, persist heroic spirit, and condense the strong positive energy for national rejuvenation.

In France half a century ago, as the Cold War loomed, Charles de Gaulle easily convinced the French that they were heroic during World War II because he was heroic. Francois Mitterrand, by contrast, managed to assure the French only that they were not so bad, because he, Mitterrand, had served in the collaborationist Vichy regime of Marshal Pétain before joining the resistance.

It is important for these men and women to know that we stand together in honour of their heroic efforts under arduous and often dangerous circumstances.

Ory Okolloh tells the story of her life and her family and how she came to do her heroic work reporting on the doings of Kenya's parliament.

The point is, are we ready to take the path to celebrating ordinary heroes, waiting for the right situation to come along to put heroic imagination into action?

He was sitting outside of the road, watching one of these polio campaigns unfold, and a few months later he wrote This is foreign aid at its most heroic.

Botanist Corneille Ewango talks about his work at the Okapi Faunal Reserve in the Congo Basin and his heroic work protecting it from poachers, miners and raging civil wars.

With this in mind, I propose a situational perspective for heroism, just as I do for evil the same situation that can inflame the hostile imagination and evil in some of us can inspire the heroic imagination in others. We must teach people, especially our children, to think of themselves as heroes in waiting, ready to take heroic action in a particular situation that may occur only once in their lifetime.

The years go by and so do the decades, carrying us ever farther from the spring of 1945, but the heroic deeds of the veterans will never fade from people's memory.

Feeling the force of that operation, the terrorists fled to commit more crimes this time in the brave and heroic city of Khadimiya, where over 160 civilians were killed on 14 September.

Sometimes, focusing on what's heroic, beautiful and dignified, regardless of the context, can help magnify these intangibles three ways, in the protagonist of the story, in the audience, and also in the storyteller.

Wallenberg was a hero who saved the lives of many Jews in my home city of Budapest by establishing Swedish safe houses. During the German occupation, my father was also a heroic figure.

It seems to mark humanity s retreat into infantilism. But if the douceur of sports can channel aggressive passions into benign, if trivial pursuits, why should we deny our star performers their heroic stature?

She would never have withstood the searching inquiries of months of campaigning. But no one seems disposed to contemplate her heroic lack of qualifications to sit a heartbeat away from the Oval Office.

The State has acknowledged their contribution and conferred the titles of heroic women and woman of the emulation movement in the Doi Moi time (time of reform) for 19 and 272 individuals respectively.

The United Nations must continue to work to achieve a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and to adopt measures to reverse the situation of the heroic and long suffering Palestinian people.

The cost of such bodies was a small price to pay for the duty of the organization and the international community to assist the long suffering and heroic Palestinian people in their quest for statehood.

Each of those stars actually represents a specific event in the real world a quote that was stated by somebody, an image, a news story, a person, a company. You know, some kind of heroic personality.

But heroic rescue efforts will not be able to help the government forever, so it is worth asking what can provide long term political legitimacy. After all, communism has lost its capacity to inspire the Chinese.

He was born in a prison with almost nothing, no material goods, but he had a sense of his own heroic journey, which I believe we are all born into. He said, Probably I can't do everything.

Hamas also emerged as the moral victor after the latest but surely not the last military clash. Far from intimidating the Palestinians by bombing Gaza and mobilizing troops, the Israelis made Hamas look heroic in its resistance.

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And what the American the most powerful military in the history of mankind was able to muster for his rescue, believe it or not, was literally these heroic two American soldiers went into the shaft. Building was shaking.

By opening up our translation program, thousands of heroic volunteers some of them watching online right now, and thank you! have translated our talks into more than 70 languages, thereby tripling our viewership in non English speaking countries.

One might have expected the heroic commitment of Ukrainians to Europe s democratic ideals to trigger a rush of Western support for the country in its battle against Russian aggression and economic instability. But that has not been the case.

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Their mom is a very brave woman who didn't believe that the symptoms weren't matching up, and through some heroic efforts and a lot of Internet searching, she was able to convince the medical community that, in fact, they had something else.

The Global Fund has brightened the futures of hundreds of thousands of children across Africa and Asia a heroic achievement that should make donor countries citizens proud. I hope that others with the means to support its work will invest so wisely.