This is really the basis of assessing character, where people show their true mettle. |
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He can start by showing mettle and reversing the decision to hold a public inquiry. |
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It will take sterner tests before we see the true mettle of these Mayo players. |
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Coventry's opening was brisk and sufficiently to the point to put Tottenham on their mettle. |
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The crowd at the Halton Stadium can be a vociferous lot anyway, so we will have to be on our mettle. |
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As someone who has hitherto needed to reject one thing before moving on to another, Juliet is on her mettle, and she knows it. |
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They will need to be on their mettle again to hold out the talented Stars attack. |
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The iron men and women of Kerry proved their mettle at the weekend when they competed in a gruelling triathlon to raise funds for a worthy cause. |
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In true mettle, Usha had hundreds of colourfully dressed students dancing to her mesmeric voice for the full dress rehearsal on Thursday. |
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York were on their mettle from the off and led 22-13 at the five ends stage with two rinks winning and two rinks drawing. |
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This way of thinking was made explicit only when critics such as Vincenzo Borghini were put on their mettle to defend the Baptistery's antiquity. |
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He established his championship mettle as the defensive heart and soul of the team. |
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Negotiating the corporate maze can test the mettle of even the most resourceful individuals. |
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Though many Montrealers enjoy proving their mettle cycling through traffic, cycling paths are available for recreational purposes. |
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Such rapid growth also tests their mettle as stewards of the built environment. |
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It has been a difficult season for Fletcher, one in which his mettle has been tested to the maximum. |
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So begins a harrowing adventure that tests the young girl's mettle, revealing hidden strengths she didn't know she had. |
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The true test of a restaurant's dessert mettle is the dessert tasting menu. |
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The guard dogs howled occasionally to keep the wild boar in the woods on their mettle. |
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Using wry wit where melodrama would have sufficed, she externalises her character's grave desperation with mettle. |
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He's the oddball who again proves his mettle as both a character actor and leading man. |
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He had to find his mettle as a leader, and he quickly realised that musical talent was not enough. |
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Securing the future of Social Security is a vital test of the current Congress' mettle. |
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The politicians, both those who hold office and others who aspire to displace them, are yet to show such mettle. |
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Even computers were not left behind and an entire roomful of youngsters showed their mettle with the gadgets. |
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I cannot say I am confident every jellyfish that has held the post since then would have shown the same mettle. |
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Everyone's playing for their place and has to be on their mettle at all times. |
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But where the program really shows its mettle is in the certification requirement. |
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Carnatic musicians today have more avenues to prove their mettle than artistes in general had even a few years ago. |
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On the ground, heavily armed monster trucks, twin turreted tanks and other impressive enemies will test your mettle. |
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It is the closest that the PGA Tour has come to links conditions, the ultimate test of a golfer's mettle and patience. |
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The event, promised to be a grand show, will see a display of grit, zeal and mettle. |
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This woman of steel has proved her mettle many a time, in her feisty battle with the judiciary and opposition. |
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The true mettle of the new British system won't be apparent until it's tested in a crisis. |
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I am pretty sure he means resources, mettle and grit but the point is well-made. |
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But they better show their mettle, given that reunification is around the corner. |
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Although Kelly presents herself as uncomplicated and cheerful, every so often the public glimpse her true mettle. |
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After proving his mettle in training, he is delivered a dose of Super Serum, a PED that instantly makes him bigger, stronger, and faster than just about any other human alive. |
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I don't think that will be the case and, of course, we will be on our mettle. |
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For all the attention lavished on polls, prognostications and policy positions, a presidential campaign measures, most of all, the mettle and maturity of the candidates. |
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Djokovic's dodgy conditioning suggested a sort of moral flabbiness, a lack of mettle, that made him unpopular with some of his peers. |
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True experts can test their mettle in the unremittingly blowy conditions at Pozo Izquierdo, in south-east Gran Canaria. |
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But men of Dieudonné's mettle are thin on the ground and do not appear on the platforms of Western television stations. |
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In overturning a two-goal deficit from the first leg of a play-off for the first time, France showed that they had mettle. |
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Give some of the youngsters in the bank a chance to show their mettle. |
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The children also proved their mettle in reciting popular Tamil poetry. |
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On the back of the last debacle in the east of the country one would have thought it would have been incumbent on any authority to be on their mettle and perform better. |
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So far they have beaten teams from the bottom two sections and are clearly in fine fettle at the moment, but they will need to be on their mettle on Sunday. |
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After the first-half performance it is not a bad point because no matter who you are playing against you have got to be on your mettle for 90 minutes. |
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Then in his fourth innings Stokes had the mettle to show us what he could do. |
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The Committee proved its mettle by publicly demonstrating that it fully intended to carry out the role that had been prescribed in the CSIS Act. |
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And we once again proved our mettle as a winter people by beating back brutal cold and three record snowfalls. |
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But you cannot, because you don't have the true mettle of great revolutionary leaders. |
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All in all, the challenges gave the entire team a chance to test their mettle and keep their adrenaline pumping at an impressive level. |
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For the 2011 edition, the official on-line game will again allow web users to test their mettle on a virtual rally route. |
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We've always been driven to test our mettle against the unknown and to unravel the complexities that nature and the universe place before us. |
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Harmonising the work of all these bodies into a coherent and consistent output will certainly test our mettle in the years to come. |
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, his mettle in polar extremes far outstrips his writing ability. |
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The presidency subjects American incumbents to perennial gut checks, testing their mettle. |
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Perhaps one of the things war monuments and graves do is to make you reflect on whether you would have the mettle to give your life for what you felt was right. |
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But will it keep women of talent and substance and mettle and ambition from gunning it forward? |
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Despite the lung-busting altitude, the unrelenting, cobbled trails and the punishing gradients, each year more people arrive to test their mettle. |
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Colleagues say the negotiating skills he displayed during his dealings with truculent Glasgow councillors showed he has the mettle for the big time. |
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The new Greens, he adds, belong to a younger generation and several have already proven their mettle by snubbing standing invitations to join the provincial Liberals. |
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As the editor of Independence, which was a task assigned to him, he proved his mettle as he was possessed of intellectual daring, a virile pen and sound political judgement. |
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The first-time diver's mettle was tested by the sub-aqua gear. |
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Damon has shown his mettle in a number of films, proving that he has the ability to build and sustain a character, even though he has never had the great role. |
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Among the first of the top placers to test their mettle against the course was O'Connor on the mare Wyndham, who came home with only 2.6 time penalties. |
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The rangy 24-year-old front-runner now faces a real test of his mettle in a vital clash in Montevideo, where Eduardo Lara's men will need to take full advantage of the chances which come their way. |
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In a war composed mostly of sieges rather than battles, he proved his mettle. |
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In a war composed mostly of sieges rather than battles, Farnese proved his mettle. |
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A sneak attack and a major gale prove Aubrey's mettle. |
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The next two rounds will provide a sterner test of this team's mettle, however – taking them to San Siro to face Inter next Sunday, then back home to host Napoli after the international break. |
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However, the top seed showed his mettle with a string of big serves and passing shots to win the game. |
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Now at last we have good news to reflect upon as the Christmas season creeps closer after Bombardier showed their mettle in the hardest of times. |
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North's mettle will undergo a more taxing examination on Saturday night when they host Port Adelaide, with Dal Santo almost certain to be sidelined after tweaking his hamstring in the third quarter against Brisbane. |
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But their mettle was first tried, and their pioneering skills honed, at Santa Clara, Gunlock and Hebron, Utah. |
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There is a responsibility for the government to produce legislation that is going to work and that actually has the proper elements to it to test the mettle of the legal system. |
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That is how we test the mettle of a piece of legislation. |
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We've proven our mettle in the complex world of trade finance. |
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The next test of our mettle, though, is almost upon us. |
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The arrival of this unexpected heir soon taking wind in the court, still makes good for the Sol, and keeps the court upon its mettle. |
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Thrill to exciting footage from the National Geographic television event as you hunt down elusive hidden objects and test your mettle with challenging mini-games. |
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His Songun-based leadership has made it possible to make the mettle of the Songun era pulsate and create uninterrupted miracles and innovations in the economy, culture and other fields. |
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Russia has shown its mettle in undertaking difficult economic reforms. |
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Surviving the winter North Atlantic in a cramped, open lifeboat, often for a week or more, with only a minimum of water and possibly hardtack and biscuits could test the mettle of even the hardiest. |
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Lily James is a piercingly young and beautiful heroine who retains, throughout her ordeal, traces of spark and mettle that led her to defy convention in the first place. |
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Easy banter, teasing jabs, a clear-eyed American common sense that tried Hepburn's mettle and made her unbend — she got all that from Rogers, and not from any actress again. |
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And yet, our mettle tested, Canadians continue to be optimistic about the prospects for our economy and, I believe, confident about our future and the future of Canada. |
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Earlier, President Kaberuka reviewed the institution's activities in the past year, noting that the Bank had proven its mettle as well as its franchise value to Africa as a mature institution that knows what to do. |
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Please read on and discover the issues in education that test the mettle of those who experience this world every day. |
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Ironically, it could be just the attle Everton need, and Moyes ieves the time has come for his side to show their mettle and the character he knows they possess. |
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There's been a perception about Justin Trudeau that he's the mother's son, that much of the mettle from the father descended to the other boy, Alexandre. |
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