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"mettle" Definitions
  1. the ability and determination to do something successfully despite difficult conditions

534 Sentences With "mettle"

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Costs are up, and our mettle has certainly been tested.
Why of course I'm down for my mettle being tested.
Pelosi proved her mettle even before the government shutdown began.
A second Trump term would test their mettle even more.
Both have tested their mettle against some truly strong competition.
As it turned out, he would need to prove his mettle.
It was a very loud, pointed attempt at proving my mettle.
For them, fighting professionals is a way to test their mettle.
Golf's premier mettle detector remains the Europeans' domain until proven otherwise.
North Korea showed its mettle by firing six projectiles in defiance.
This is how Trump views everything in life -- tests of mettle.
Playwright Edward Albee immortalized that flamboyant mettle in his play Occupant (257).
Yet it promises to be a stern test of the island's mettle.
"This market is in the process of testing their mettle," Kilduff said.
He also tested Clinton's mettle and brought energy to the Democratic Party.
Begin with simple tasks to give yourself the mettle to go forward.
When a single woman arrives, she proves her mettle — on their terms.
At the same time, though, MoMA's organizational mettle will be under stress.
Lake has certainly proven her mettle as an entrepreneur, regardless of gender.
Yet its regional allies, particularly Lebanon's Hezbollah, have proven their mettle in war.
Did that really measure his mettle as a candidate in any meaningful way?
He is desperate to prove his mettle and join the team of Avengers.
So EU regulators are essentially facing a first test of their mettle — i.e.
My mettle was tested by the likes of Amazon, Uber, Indeed and Nordstrom.
Our photog tested his mettle, asking the hard question ... What's your favorite dish?
Scouts see much more in Dunn than just off-court humility and mettle.
These are the moments in which the nation's mettle — and ideals — are tested.
But so far, House Democrats have not similarly tested the Trump administration's mettle.
Voting in a democracy shouldn't be a test of your mettle or perseverance.
The tense standoff proves, yet again, that America's finest still has the mettle.
The final chapters bring a wrenching twist — beautifully handled — that tests her mettle.
The protests will be a key test for President Emmanuel Macron's reform mettle.
In this respect, it was certainly foreseeable that Kim would test President Trump's mettle.
A crisis in Burundi offered a chance for the AU to show its mettle.
Now has come the time his mettle will begin to be measured, in perpetuity.
Shoot it into space and let foreign planets quake in fear at our mettle.
But the perilous descent seems like a cruel, unnecessary test of the boy's mettle.
Don't make judgments about them or their mettle until you've walked in their shoes.
The GOP operative earned his mettle during Gerald Ford's convention floor fight in 1976.
But the younger Adams proved his diplomatic mettle, and years later he became president.
Financial markets will most likely test whether Mr. Draghi's successor has the same mettle.
It was in her resilience and tremendous strength that I drew the mettle to focus.
This is really the only way to test the mettle of an individual's leadership skills.
Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz said he was impressed with Taylor and Wisconsin's mettle on defense.
Here's how Capy describes it: Test your adventurer mettle against The Isle's procedural subterranean labyrinths.
" He's given himself six months to prove his mettle -- "If I fail, I will surrender.
He said the Note 7 crisis is a chance for Lee to prove his mettle.
There's a Dueling Club feature that will let gamers test their mettle against each other.
Tonight, Joe Biden will test his mettle against Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and other hopefuls.
Challenges from technological changes to the price collapse have tested the mettle of the industry.
That game showed the group had the mettle to handle a pressure-packed tournament final.
Where do you think she found that mettle to say, "Let's do it, let's publish"?
Rivera is certainly the kind of character who will test the mettle of Faber's mindset.
Operating under grueling, dangerous conditions, he proved his mettle as a manager and efficiency expert.
" Mr. Strangio said it was "clear that he's testing the mettle of the Trump administration.
In holding on for a two-shot victory over Johnson, Koepka showed his mental mettle.
And for some publishers, Twitter is already proving its mettle as a Facebook-esque traffic source.
It looks like both men want to prove their mettle in the ring against one another.
Now all self-proclaimed experts have a chance to prove their mettle or meet their comeuppance.
In tackling the lowly status of women in the workplace, Mr Abe has shown more mettle.
But what Wolitzer's heroine lacks in breezy self-assurance she makes up for in moral mettle.
It is time for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to show some diplomatic acumen and some mettle.
Still, the weather was severe enough to test the mettle of even the hardiest of partygoers.
It also gives the heroine an emotional intensity and mettle unmatched by practically any other soprano.
Landing the job is only the beginning — it's what happens afterward that tests an actor's mettle.
Rather than recalling that defeat in bitter terms, Mr. Edwardes seemed to appreciate Consolidated Gold's mettle.
García was not the only one Friday showing a certain mettle in the face of adversity.
McGahn thought the President was testing his mettle to see how committed McGahn was to what happened.
Residents in the southeastern part of the state openly express admiration for Texas' culture and economic mettle.
Even so, Theresa May, the prime minister, has so far failed to show any mettle over housing.
Testing ones mettle against the elements — and nothing but the elements — sounded kind of refreshing, didn't it?
As unpleasant and even dishonorable as the Clinton attacks were, they allowed Obama to prove his mettle.
Paige has mettle and rage too, and no amount of church camp is going to squelch that.
They're engaged in full-blown psychological warfare now, and neither man has the mettle to break free.
Now, he will have his mettle tested during the FBI's 20-week training program in Quantico, Virginia.
He has beaten Federer and Nadal this year but is yet to prove his mettle on grass.
Most of Moe's clients from the "developed world" come to test their mettle, if even only slightly.
Her campaign, then, is a test not only of her mettle but of our biases and receptiveness.
No, you have proven -- Sanders: We are -- Todd: -- I mean, no doubt, you've proven your mettle here.
Then you leave home, one by one, testing the mettle of the person they helped you become.
Altuve said the hardship of his first few seasons helped forge his and the team's championship mettle.
He disappeared in the 1970s, and a new mascot — a mule named Mettle — was introduced in 1979.
As one might expect, the proximity of the extremes has drawn people looking to test their mettle.
The New England Patriots showed championship mettle in a wild win Sunday night against the Kansas City Chiefs.
Now, everyone will be testing you, your mettle, your resolve -- and especially the world according to your tweets.
Yet, he agrees to enter a fight he will purposefully throw, supposedly as a test of his mettle.
Current Mettle users include the likes of Discovery, CNN, HBO, Google, Apple, Facebook and The New York Times.
To prove its mettle, it recently printed the biggest robot-built structure ever — in just over 13 hours.
Others have lured (ha) customers in by offering discounts to people who can prove their Pokemon mettle. SMART.
But for young upstarts, it's the best way to test their mettle in front of a live crowd.
One of the activities ... testing your mettle against the dogs (just like Mark Ingram did earlier this month).
Curry's injuries in the playoffs last year gave his teammates a chance to prove their mettle without him.
My guests were delighted by the Penelope contraption, and plopped down on the bed to test its mettle.
The differently-abled girls were excited to participate in the contest, and prove their mettle by showcasing talent.
Test your relationship's mettle by renting a houseboat in Kerala, slowly drifting along its lagoons, canals, and rivers.
And Watson, after a slow start, has shown its mettle by assisting in daunting tasks like diagnosing cancer.
O.K., I thought, I could definitely vote for Joe — provided he has the mettle to stand his ground.
But, though Ashley Bouder certainly shows her mettle, Mr. Abraham's invention for women is far closer to cliché.
Adams proved her mettle by making treks across Europe to attend to her husband's career as a diplomat.
Critic's Pick The artist proves her mettle in her first New York show since the 2017 Whitney Biennial.
It's in the extended third section that "Torch Song" reveals the tougher mettle of which it is made.
They've encouraged athletes like Buster Keaton and Pearl White of "The Perils of Pauline" to prove their mettle.
Turns out, we didn't underestimate Canadian (and British) fighting mettle as much as we underestimated our own incompetence.
Still, after the Rangers took a 23-2 lead in the third period, Chicago again proved its championship mettle.
Our sponsors keep coming up with challenging contests to test your hacking mettle (more on that in a minute).
But it is still proving its mettle as a political party, and its continued rise is far from guaranteed.
Trump, in other words, was the proof of his mettle, the dragon that he alone set out to slay.
Those questions have since been conclusively answered—yes, and sometimes—but only by exhaustively testing the machines' mettle directly.
McGahn refused to back away from what he remembered happening and perceived the President to be testing his mettle.
The sting of their Game 3 overtime loss will once again test the mettle of the St. Louis Blues.
Nor would it be sufficient to prove that he has the foreign policy mettle to be commander-in-chief.
"And those who try will soon join the long list of vanquished enemies who dared to test our mettle."
If Tuesday night is any indication, it's clear which side has the ideas, energy, and political mettle to win.
Moore is ranked 203nd but showed his mettle this week, displaying a knack for holing critical putts on Sunday.
" The answer, she said, was transparency: "A researcher is not worth her mettle unless she publicly reveals her data.
They have also demonstrated time and again their mettle and loyalty as invaluably effective allies of the United States.
We have, after all, seen Diaz test his mettle at welterweight before, and it has not been especially pretty.
But very quickly, she always proved her own mettle, and that she was a master in her own right.
Expect teams to blitz Murray relentlessly early on, to test both his mettle and the soundness of Kingsbury's protections.
Today, fans like those at the Spoiling Dead frequently prove their mettle by bringing back info from filming sites.
McGahn refused to back away from what he remembered happening and perceived the president to be testing his mettle.
It wasn't just to see the jihadis up close or to cover a war or to prove my mettle.
Kamala Harris: Like Booker, Harris clearly saw the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings as a chance to showcase her prosecutorial mettle.
Today's current bull run cannot last forever, and hedge funds will again have a chance to prove their mettle.
The Buckeyes showed their mettle with a season-opening win at Cincinnati and Thursday's 69-60 victory at Creighton.
"Now is the time to show your mettle," Heather Lee's husband told her on his deathbed 23 years ago.
A victory for Clinton tonight may slow Sanders's momentum and quiet (for now) questions about her mettle as a candidate.
This is how Mars InSight's extremely sensitive seismometer proved its mettle before being loaded onto a rocket destined for Mars.
Most Olympic events have passed a significant inflection point; no longer do they test the mettle of an elite athlete.
The brain-cancer diagnosis in July 2017 freed his tongue, and tested his mettle, in all the ways he relished.
"My first book had somewhat ghettoized me and I wanted to prove that I had more intellectual mettle," Hodgson says.
Proving his mettle yet again was Prince Philip, who kept his cool in his scarlet uniform and towering bearskin hat.
Trump as political manager Presidential campaigns are long, stressful affairs marked by surprises and crises that test a candidate's mettle.
You can also take on other players in a test of mettle to see whose Transformers army is more badass.
Neither side should struggle to find the necessary mettle, nor players who are ready and willing to go to war.
The Iranian launches were likely timed to send a signal to the U.S. – and in invitation to test its mettle.
Villanova has shown its championship mettle in the first two rounds of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas.
Although Pashinyan has demonstrated the mettle for leadership, he lacks the depth in personnel around him to staff a government.
The UK and US both have warships in the region that have proven their mettle in backing down Iranian threats.
With a positive outlook for the stock market, Einhorn said many active money managers could now better show their mettle.
It is fitting, then, that in keeping with his definition of what constitutes mettle, Montreal is where Michael Griffin remains.
It'll take a lot more work, but algorithms have already proved their mettle against humans in games like Unreal Tournament.
Where there had been idealism and mettle a decade ago, there is now a breezy acceptance of the status quo.
The mettle it took for my parents to muscle into the middle class turned out to be my lucky inheritance.
It's only when that happens that we will have a full view of the mettle of Trump and his team.
Yet they have proved their mettle, winning convictions against some of the worst violators of human rights since the Nazi era.
You know how they say you can really tell a person's mettle in tough times and when the heat is on.
A cocktail of expensive stockmarkets, a maturing business cycle and fiscal largesse would test the mettle of the most experienced policymakers.
This unfortunate episode doubles down on that, showing her mettle as she packed in a full weekend of events while ill.
In Houston it showed off data-storage kit that was continuously showered with water, to prove its mettle in inhospitable oilfields.
In both of those hypothetically mettle-testing episodes, one half of the couple said "I love you" for the first time.
Cyber Security Challenge U.K. provides an opportunity for anyone with coding and IT skills to prove their mettle against security incidents.
Early in his career, Ma faced a string of rejections, which he said helped to build his mettle as an entrepreneur.
Sitting in the hot seat of a high-profile congressional hearing has a way of unmasking the mettle of any witness.
A trip to Watford, who were buoyed by last week's stirring comeback win at West Ham United, will test their mettle.
The highest profile cases that will really test their mettle are of course attached to tech giants — including Facebook and Google.
Yet it's very possible that Holloway ends up fighting Aldo for the interim title while McGregor tests his mettle at lightweight.
Earlier in the week, they'd proved their mettle by pushing Carey's 2001 album, "Glitter," to the top of the iTunes chart.
"McGahn thought the president was testing his mettle to see how committed McGahn was to what happened," Mr. Mueller's investigators wrote.
As well as testing Macron's mettle, the rolling strike will also challenge the resolve of unions to maintain a common stance.
Swift has also already proven her streaming service mettle, debuting a full-length concert documentary on Netflix on New Year's Eve.
The Seahawks showed their mettle once again last week when they survived a 10-9 wild-card battle in frigid Minnesota temperatures.
Renzi has backed the legislation and the bill has become a test of his political mettle two years after he took office.
Don't miss your chance to put your tech mettle to the test and come home with some pretty awesome cash and prizes.
Among other things, it acquired Mettle's SkyBox tools earlier this year and made Mettle co-founder Chris Bobotis its "Director of Immersive."
If Jokowi is to be the man to lead Indonesia to sustained prosperity, he needs to toughen his reformist mettle—and quickly.
The investing world heads into the first full week of June with a slew of events that will test the market's mettle.
Reversing the impression that the White House spins out of control will be the first test of Kelly's mettle and leadership skills.
As it happens, Richard has shown enough "mettle," as Laurie puts it, to earn back his job as C.E.O. of Pied Piper.
In the Chinese city of Shenyang, Wu Guanzhuo, 17, proved her mettle as an environmental activist before Thunberg became a household name.
In their matchup today, the Eagles and Falcons each had a shot to prove their mettle as one of the NFC's best.
The Knicks have been dismal for decades, but New York remains the mecca of basketball, the crucible where superstars prove their mettle.
By the summer of 1983, almost 3,000 people had arrived in Battery Park City to test their mettle in a new world.
Rather than desecrating these timeless classics that were once too weird for words, the bleeps and electro-textures prove the melodies' mettle.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is seeking to show its mettle after the debacle of the post-Maria response in Puerto Rico.
The experience of running is of course different from the experience of being president, but it's a test of executive mettle nonetheless.
Buttigieg, in response, often touts that he "grew up gay in Indiana" as a proof of his mettle on the campaign trail.
For a bit more adrenaline, test your mettle on the skeleton track and reach speeds of up to 45 mph, head first.
The party has ratcheted up the requirements to participate in the debates, which mandate that they demonstrate mettle in fundraising and polling.
That one ended with Konta winning, 10-8, in the third set, and proved that Konta does possess some of Murray's mettle.
Asked whether May's former foreign minister Boris Johnson might have the mettle to find a solution, Tusk said such claims may be exaggerated.
The most effective way to prove your cloud computing mettle to recruiters, of course, is to pass Microsoft's official certification exams in Azure.
The mullahs and their Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps want to prove their mettle by showing that Mr Trump's actions have costs—for everyone.
Cruz said Fiorina had already proven her mettle in standing up to Trump last year after he insulted her looks in an interview.
Wilson never got to go to college, never even finished high school and certainly never got to test his mettle in the NBA.
"If you need to go on strike just to test our mettle, then go ahead," O'Leary said in his Dublin office on Tuesday.
This will be her first official foreign trip, and her mettle as a representative of her father will be put to the test.
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will set out to prove his campaign has the support and mettle to survive a winding primary calendar.
"You come into a situation where the face of franchise left and everybody sort of questions the group and their mettle," he said.
Many moderate Tories, even those who oppose no-deal, would like to give their new prime minister a chance to prove his mettle.
Of the same mettle is "The Day of Battle," which Alan Riding cites in his review of Peter Parker's "Housman Country" (July 30).
The progressive party has no qualms about wielding power together with conservatives, and possesses both the mettle and track record to do so.
His ability to keep that secret, even while he goes eagle-watching with a Nazi corporal (Thomas Kretschmann), is a test of mettle.
Merkel's cabinet choices, including some surprises among them, are the chosen ones who will be on the national stage to prove their mettle.
The coaches get to compete in a league of unusually equal resources, giving them a chance to prove their recruiting and coaching mettle.
But Dempsey long ago earned his reputation as a sturdy and fearless forward, and there is no need to further test his mettle.
Instead, Democrats came up short — and will look instead to the upcoming rematch on June 20 as a chance to prove their mettle.
Vowing to push Iran back, the new Saudi king's impulsive son and defence minister, Muhammad bin Salman, saw a chance to prove his mettle.
He was brave to the point of recklessness: as a boy, he once rode a bicycle straight into a wall to prove his mettle.
Where do savvy developers, hackers, tech builders and makers go to test their mettle and push the very limits of their creativity and endurance?
Applied too late, it faltered, and the German invasion of Norway went ahead: further proof, to the anti-Churchill brigade, of his rash mettle.
The 38-year-old veteran proved his mettle down the stretch once again with a couple of dagger shots to lift the Houston Rockets.
It's quite strange, and weirdly appealing—if you give them the chance to prove their mettle, Making Fuck is sure to suck you in.
It's turned into a true slugfest, with the undermanned Warriors trying to save their season at home and Toronto trying to prove its mettle.
In one of the flashback passages, Ezekiel muses to Carol that the upheaval of their apocalypse has a way of testing a person's mettle.
Koepka, who did not have a bogey, continues to prove his mettle in major championship golf, a setting that consistently withers other top golfers.
In "The Glorification of the Chosen One," when the music erupts in fractured spurts with pounding percussion, Bernstein proves his mettle as a technician.
Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord, played with mettle by Téa Leoni, refuses to negotiate with terrorists for the release of a captured CIA agent.
He had just won a five-set match that tested his emotional mettle, but he was unable to answer a question about his father.
Joe Biden's personal mettle clearly has been severely tested by life — and, when it comes to courage, he is more than fit to serve.
An attempt to prove his mettle with a grenade instead ends up disabling him, voiding any possibility of him being conscripted as a child soldier.
The city's infamous Columbus Day Storm of 1962 was the perfect opportunity for the civil defense program to prove its mettle during an actual emergency.
What followed was about seven minutes of taut, white-knuckle play that tested Walker's mental and physical mettle in a way that only golf can.
Cozart, though, tested his mettle with one out in the 10th, battling Hader full in a 10-pitch at-bat that made it 6-4.
His next stop is not clear, but Rudic said Brazil has already proved its mettle, and could remain a top contender at future international competitions.
Meanwhile, the San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints, and Seattle Seahawks continued to prove their mettle as the best teams the NFC has to offer.
Mr. Smorodinov insisted that even as he fired the shots into Mr. Mamchur, he thought it was a charade, a way to test his mettle.
Ms. McCarthy has proved her comic mettle in all kinds of company, so why not alongside a chain-smoking blue guy in a rumpled suit?
ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S For his first season as this ensemble's leader, Bernard Labadie is focusing on Haydn, a composer who tests a conductor's mettle.
She's proven her mettle by working the theater and not caring about how and where she turns tricks, so long as the money is green.
"Over the last three years, McConnell has proven his mettle," said Sean Spicer, a former White House press secretary who remains in touch with Trump.
And we're pretty sure you can't wait to hear more about our hackathon sponsors and the real-world challenges they've created to test your mettle.
"BC hasn't had to come together with lenders yet, so the test of their mettle is yet to come," the first capital markets head said.
If you're an ambitious conductor and want to prove your mettle while showing off your orchestra as top-tier, what project should you take on?
Back in the museum, Josiah McElheny, working with the curators John Corbett and Jim Dempsey, shows his MacArthur-award mettle with an expertly researched display.
Bass-baritone Gerald Finley sings the title role with impressive mettle, and the clear, deep tone of bass Kwangchul Youn (Melcthal) is a treat to hear.
For those who have the mettle to come face-to-face with a lion, an Australian zoo is opening an enclosure — except the humans are inside.
The bottom line: Cruz showed his mettle as the more aggressive candidate and remained in control throughout the debate, potentially giving him an edge moving forward.
IN HIS fourteen seasons on "The Apprentice", a television show testing contestants' business acumen and mettle, Donald Trump developed a signature line for dismissing hapless aspirants.
As such, Iowa is an early, important test of candidates' organizational and political mettle — and a showcase of how, on a good day, our democracy functions.
" State media said that it's time for North Korea "to demonstrate its mettle to the US, which is testing its will in defiance of its warning.
Assuming your allegiances lie with North Carolina, you were treated to a basketball game that tested your mettle but ultimately rewarded your faith in dramatic fashion.
As history teaches us, men and women in leadership positions manifest their true leadership qualities and reveal their soul and mettle only when tested by crisis.
If the challenge chosen as a measure of superpower mettle was one that required an entirely new generation of rockets, the Soviet advantage would be minimized.
It is time for the P5 to show their mettle and lead the world, as is their responsibility, before the scourge of ISIS infects us all.
This was a guy who outplayed Henrik Lundqvist and Braden Holtby during the first two rounds and had shown enough mettle to earn his coach's trust.
Anyone who can survive the strains of the trail, experts say, has already proven he or she has the mettle the job demands — regardless of age.
But he called Saturday's match a great opportunity for his current club to prove its mettle, to establish its place in front of its home crowd.
Annabelle is afraid of her, but she's also at an age where children are ­eager to prove their mettle, and decides to handle the threat herself.
She showed her prosecutorial mettle in those Judiciary Committee forums, and the public would relish anyone who'd clear out the swamp the way Trump has not.
They were the latest to witness the Cubs, who won 103 games in the regular season — the most in baseball — showing their mettle during the playoffs.
But he found the mettle to stand up and walk, evidently inspiring six of the evening's other nice diners, who ended up making the same trip.
The bout will be Kron's first major test, and although Tokoro is well past his prime, his experience will surely test the mettle of young Gracie.
I wanted to test my mettle with one of these months, but abstaining from one, two, or even three of my vices just wouldn't cut it.
She proved her corporate mettle in pulling out a victory in an earlier boardroom fight against another formidable rival, Philippe Dauman, the former Viacom chief executive.
But now in the NFL, after a precocious first two games this season, Wentz got the opportunity to test his mettle against Roethlisberger and the Steelers.
One video conferencing company is using the rapid rise of working from home to prove its mettle, and Needham says it still has further to climb.
Rather it was the hardened Cleveland Indians, who showed their mettle last year in reaching Game 20 of the World Series, who played with jangled nerves.
"I know him very well, so I know the character, I know the mettle that's in the spine, and that makes a difference," said Democratic Sen.
As for why Made Renovation decided to tackle one of the most challenging U.S. markets first, he suggests it's the best way to test its mettle.
The man was a public servant and proved his mettle as a respectable, intelligent, civic-minded individual who left our city better than he found it.
In the wake of a high-profile North Korean missile launch, Kim said his country would "demonstrate its mettle to the U.S.," The Associated Press reported.
It takes some true mettle to get through a UFC Pay-Per-View on a Saturday night/Sunday morning with the event climaxing at around 6am.
Because what remains to be captured is the courage and mettle of the women who did all they could to survive the deprivation of Victorian London.
His ability to weather the onslaught will offer insights about his strengths as a candidate and whether he has the mettle to survive once the field narrows.
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's government unveiled a highly anticipated labor reform plan seen at home and abroad as a crucial test of his reform mettle.
To this avail, Facebook is partnering with post-production companies and VFX houses, including Adobe, Otoy, Foundry, Mettle, DXO, Here Be Dragons, Framestore, Magnopus and The Mill.
For starters, the 25-year-old proved her mettle when she turned Jedrzejczyk's shots at her mental health into a conversation about advocating for mental health awareness.
The clock will stay in space for a full year to test its mettle in harsh space conditions, including variable temperature and heavy gravitational loads during launch.
And she has worked hard to prove her mettle to these voters by embracing criminal justice reform and campaigning with the families of victims of police shootings.
The weather is set to test the mettle of hundreds of thousands in New York's Times Square as they ring in the New Year on Sunday night.
"The indiscriminate nuclear strike to be made by the DPRK will clearly show those keen on aggression and war the military mettle of Juche Korea," it said.
In the hearing, Justice Samuel Alito likened it to a "law-school hypothetical", an "artificial" and notoriously odd series of facts designed to test law students' mettle.
Clinton is somehow expected to project the mettle of a commander in chief, the charisma of a drinking buddy, the warmth of a favorite aunt, they say.
Nothing tests the mettle of an American president more than being forced to make the supremely consequential decision to send America's sons and daughters into harm's way.
For decades, Western culture treated bullying as an expected rite of passage that tested a man's mettle, an unpleasant but surmountable obstacle on the path to glory.
I love Will Smith in comic overdrive, preferably when he bumps against co-stars of a different mettle—Tommy Lee Jones, say, in " Men in Black " (1997).
But things happen in life — sometimes very bad things — that test a president's mettle, and we saw in Puerto Rico that Trump isn't up to the test.
It's also possible that he simply opts to hang up the gloves for good, rather than testing his mettle in the cage or ring of another organization.
Whether Democratic voters think a candidate wrapped in a message of love has the mettle to beat Trump might be one the fundamental questions around Booker's campaign.
A mailman-in-training, the spoiled brat Jesper (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) is sent to prove his mettle and learn responsibility in the frozen town of Smeerensburg.
"It's not just the automated vehicles that have to prove their mettle," Uwe Keller, who is head of autonomous driving at Mercedes Benz, said in a statement.
Teams will have to submit an initial proposal and show their mettle in a "flat sat" situation, where all the satellite components are arrayed on the ground.
Perhaps the answer is that this city — like this country — is composed significantly of migrants, and New York has always been the place to prove your mettle.
Guests will be able to test their mettle on a variety of heli-adventures from hiking to flightseeing, all of which explore areas only accessible by air.
The Trump administration has recently been trying to show its mettle with a flurry of sanctions announcements amid concerns that Mr. Trump may soften those already enacted.
Macy's hasn't lost its touch as an authority on our nation's greatest shopping holiday, and is proving its mettle by unleashing its best Black Friday deals yet.
His paintings are giant, heroic blast sites — pitted, scarred, rough-textured, things that have been weathered in the worst possible conditions in order to test their mettle.
Expectations would be set, and opportunities, resources and experiences would be doled out — and withheld — a priori, before anyone has had a chance to show their mettle.
Needless to say, then, the negotiations between Trump and Kim will be exceedingly delicate, and few are confident Trump has the mettle to walk the tightrope without slipping.
In 17th-century Argentina, gauchos flaunted their strength and agility through a lightning-quick percussive dance called malambo, often facing off in dance battles to prove their mettle.
Wang also thinks that Taylor earned his way into the title by proving his mettle after the acquisition, and that Dayon was ready to try a different role.
Sometimes you don't even have to really do anything: one line of quests lets you test an orc's mettle in a fighting pit, where you're simply a spectator.
In reality, Hornibrook answered major questions about his mettle by nailing several key throws late in the third quarter, including a 224-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Taylor.
It's in the arena of job search where Comparably is hoping to test its mettle against Linkedin (Microsoft's multi-billion dollar trash fire of a company recent acquisition).
Despite this, every diver on that boat, according to him, goes through at least one test of mettle in the harsh, at times unpredictable realms of deep digging.
For these elites, failure becomes not so much a crisis as a modern-day finishing school, where everyone graduates with the perfect résumé of mettle-building career challenges.
Some even test their mettle in organized clan versus clan warfare through Squad League, competitive league that streams weekly on Twitch that can be surprisingly entertaining to watch.
She attended Cornell Law School and was a White House fellow in the Obama administration before mounting a campaign highlighting her heritage, sexual orientation and martial-arts mettle.
And while Wahl was testing his mettle on the big screen in Hollywood, I became obsessed with the work of legendary, real-life FBI undercover agent, Joe Pistone.
This storyline will test Sanders's mettle with female voters and means Warren will likely have to spend more time talking about her gender instead of kitchen table issues.
In 1971, her mettle was tested when Jim Jones, a cult leader who borrowed many of his ideas from Father Divine, tried to take over the Peace Mission.
If Cruz does manage to parry these assaults and win in Iowa, he will go a long way in showing he has the mettle to become the Republican nominee.
As they vie for the next billion consumers to come online, Alibaba is taking on Amazon, Google is matched against Baidu and Tencent can prove its mettle against Facebook.
The Chicago Blackhawks hope to see a familiar face back in the lineup when they test their mettle against fellow Central Division heavyweights St. Louis and Dallas this week.
Depending on how deep and how long any recession lasts, look out for the following: Recessions test the mettle of investors and separate the strong companies from the weak.
In matches over the weekend, OpenAI's "Five" system defeated two pro teams soundly, and soon you'll be able to test your own mettle against — or alongside — the ruthless agent.
Choi showed her mettle by making birdie at the par-five 15th after a brilliant pitch from deep rough short of the green set up an eight-foot putt.
It's time to step up and put my mettle to the test ... put my hands up and fight with an actual monster, fight with a top-ranked elite assassin.
But, last week, the guy decided to test his mettle against Russian blogger Oleg Mongol in a real MMA match in a gym in the Russian Republic of Khakassia.
With that crisis long over, however, capitalism has again proved its mettle by nourishing more prosperity and higher living standards while Venezuela's economy continues shrinking at an alarming rate.
Whether you're on episode 1 or 9, the show's brilliant young actors prove their mettle once again – none more so than Millie Bobby Brown in her second turn as Eleven.
It was ... I have to say in a way that was different than previous efforts and maybe because it was so hard ... the team really had to show their mettle.
One can tell when the orchestra is excited to be playing a piece like this, a tour-de-force that tests their mettle and lets them show off their skill.
The Celtics had just won a hard fought 7-game series against the Washington Wizards to reach the Eastern Conference Finals, supposedly demonstrating the team's mettle during moments of adversity.
If the executive orders he signs are overturned because they don't meet constitutional mettle, that will be his fault, too, since it's also the president's responsibility to obey the Constitution.
Yet nearly everyone I met in Dhaka spoke of the traffic as a trial by fire, a test of mettle, a horror that is also a perverse source of pride.
Indeed, enhancing the position of the United States deterrent, especially when Russia and China are testing American mettle, could not be more important or worthy of some overwhelming bipartisan support.
Asked if Trump, too, believed it was a mistake for his personal attorney to work with these companies, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it only proved the president's mettle.
The Bengals will vie for their second straight victory in a bid to even their record on Sunday morning when they test their mettle against the Washington Redskins in London.
But some political experts said they feared that Ms. Murata, like other women in leadership positions, might be forced to prove her mettle by playing down so-called women's issues.
And he has proved his mettle, having emerged from the margins to mount a surprisingly strong challenge to Hillary Clinton, earning 26 million votes and capturing 22012 primaries or caucuses.
Two days later and about 870 miles away, some of the military exercise's participants were in Tuktoyaktuk, Canada, showing their mettle by ice diving into the partly frozen Arctic Ocean.
But while I (most of the time) looked forward to swimming practices and meets, the chance to test my mettle against my peers, basketball tournaments made Galen nothing but miserable.
His chapter about the AIDS crisis, which tested the mettle of many physicians — they were at once afraid for their health and demoralized by their powerlessness — is moving and humane.
And some in the President's orbit believe 2018 will be an opportunity for a President who ran as the ultimate dealmaker to finally prove his mettle at the negotiating table.
And indeed, there will arguably be less need and less scope for her to show her military mettle as president than might have been the case a couple of years ago.
The battle became a defining moment in World War I, not just containing the German push along the Western Front but proving the Americans&apos military mettle for all to see.
That gives Norwegian director Roar Uthaug (The Wave) two shake-and-bake action sequences: an MMA sparring match to prove Lara's mettle, and a bike chase through the streets of London.
With "Best of Both Worlds," Star Trek: The Next Generation finally vaulted past being just another special effects-laden space series, and it proved its mettle as a tense character drama.
Still, with little organizational mettle in the rest of the primary contests around the country, and with significantly less funding than his primary opponents, Kasich's nomination bid remains a long shot.
Kendrys Morales launched his fourth homer in eight contests on Thursday and will test his mettle versus Friday starter Michael Pineda, against whom he is 3-for-11 in his career.
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom wants a Brexit deal but has the mettle to leave the European Union without a deal if necessary, deputy finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday.
But the White House and Congress have been eager to prove their mettle in taking on Russia ahead of the November elections, inspiring the new push for sanctions, and building momentum.
Such back-of-the-envelope calculations, which became known as "Fermi problems", were such good examples of critical thinking that recruiters nowadays test applicants' mettle by setting them as interview questions.
After playing 10 of their first 13 contests at home, the Oakland Athletics will test their mettle with a 10-game road trip against three teams expected to be postseason contenders.
The quest for a deal on immigration is testing the mettle of activists on both sides of the issue — with conservatives and liberals each facing the possibility of a devastating defeat.
As the suspense slackens and blood starts spilling nearly to the point of self-parody, it almost seems designed as a test of mettle — for both the filmmakers and the audience.
All seven seasons of this beloved sitcom are now available to stream, but definitely start at the beginning so you can watch Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) evolve, her mettle solidify.
Conversely, a season, not just an at-bat, or a half-inning, shows us, unequivocally, that we need the full breadth of time to really learn the mettle of a person.
LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Natwest, owned by Royal Bank of Scotland, has appointed Marieke Flament as Chief Executive of Mettle, its new digital bank for small businesses, Natwest said on Tuesday.
And while he may have been skeptical about my mettle, he would have no objection to my taking on a season or two of contact sports that might toughen me up.
The President reignited his feud with Puerto Rico earlier this week on Twitter as the island prepared for Dorian, which threatened to test the territory's mettle two years after devastating hurricanes.
"This is certainly when good managers show their mettle, and I've been very happy with his attitude throughout this," John Ricco, the Mets' longtime assistant general manager, said over the weekend.
A.O. Scott, The New York Times:  Ms. McCarthy has proved her comic mettle in all kinds of company, so why not alongside a chain-smoking blue guy in a rumpled suit?
GE Health Care has long been a strength of the company, the unit where former CEOs Jeff Immelt and John Flannery proved their mettle that got them promoted to the top job.
With the end of the Putin era perhaps now within sight, law enforcement bodies are clamping down to prove their mettle as they jockey for influence in the Russia of the future.
As he lies in a surgical unit, released by the team which questioned his mettle, Osemele can take comfort in knowing he put his health over the macho arrogance of team management.
There is only one vice presidential debate, so the candidates have only one opportunity to prove their mettle before being forgotten, aside for the occasional gaffe, for the rest of the campaign.
Nadal, however, is not one to take a backward step and again showed his mettle in the clutch moments to come through for a third round meeting with Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
This big-budget adventure picture was an anomaly for Columbia, usually a tightfisted studio; the director was Frank Capra, who had proved his mettle with effects-heavy action fare in "Submarine" (1928).
Looker thinks the senior senator from Minnesota proved her mettle by not getting rattled when Trump's Supreme Court nominee – fighting allegations of sexual assault – asked her if she's ever been blackout drunk.
In 1922, British heavyweight boxer Carl "KO" Morris arrived to the Hawaiian Islands, and put out an open invitation to Asian martial artists to test their mettle against him in the ring.
At this point, the report said, it should be up to Congress, rather than a maverick company testing the SEC's mettle, to change the longstanding policy that shareholder claims belong in federal court.
His Oldboy was a relentless machine, all forward momentum and fury, and his first English-language film, Stoker, pursued its disturbed story to its logical ends, testing the audience's mettle in the process.
The medal is given to a person who "exemplifies the lasting legacy and mettle of character embodied by the most beloved president in our nation's history, President Abraham Lincoln," according to pool reports.
For 90 minutes they sat in Trump's triplex atop his eponymous tower—the first head of government with the determination and the mettle to earn an audience with the mercurial new American leader.
Determined to follow in her footsteps, Virgil got a job at Domenica—Besh's lauded pizza restaurant with chef/partner Alon Shaya—in order to demonstrate his talent and his mettle in the kitchen.
During his term, he had to deal with a fresh flare-up of protests in the so-called "democracy village" of Wukan, ordering a crackdown to show his mettle ahead of the congress.
This will once again test the mettle of the Second Amendment right and could result in a substantial blow to an array of laws passed across the country in the wake of Heller.
He was not always flashy, particularly compared with speakers before and after him, but he proved his attack-dog mettle with a blistering, exaggerated impression of Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee for president.
People tell stories about waiting if they want to underscore their mettle or their patience; people tell stories about not waiting if they want to brag about their wealth or power or connectedness.
How to communicate with your board in tough times For startup CEOs, tough economic periods are like stressful stretches in a marriage: They test your mettle while making ugly truths impossible to hide.
The question will remain unsettled until Democrats have a nominee — though many of the Senate states have relatively early primary contests, giving presidential contenders a chance to prove their mettle in potential battlegrounds.
It is a way of illustrating that the fiery crucible is where the weapons of resistance are forged; it is where the mettle of those crusading for justice, equality and progress are tested.
All of the candidates have expressed concern, and even though some have tiptoed around using tariffs and other measures to bring China into line, the leading candidates have recently been displaying their mettle.
The week ahead will test Macron's mettle and his ability to deliver the social and economic change he says is necessary for France to compete with powers like China and the United States.
But we still have a long way to go until the Iowa caucuses (234 days, to be exact) and there's an entire field of Democrats eager to test their mettle against Trump -- and Biden.
Investors are watching carefully to see whether Mr. Macri has enough mettle to implement reforms, while voters at home fear the pinch of further cuts to government programs that help them make ends meet.
By doing so, Hillary Clinton showed she has the mettle required of the next president as he, or more likely she, faces a swarm of increasingly complicated international crises in a male-dominated world.
What comes next will really test the mettle of this administration as the responses from all the parties to the Syrian civil war and the larger political situation surrounding it starts to take shape.
By constantly being above it all, smiling as he engaged in insults, keeping calm while he hovered behind her in the second debate like a would-be stalker, she proved she had presidential mettle.
Their talent has never been in doubt but any questions over whether Phil Neville's side had the mettle for the high pressure knockout stages were answered by a confident display at the Stade Oceane.
It was the show whose very name was a dare — a trial of courage, testing your mettle to stay up past bedtime, hang with the older kids, and listen to terrifying tales without squealing.
A 23rd grand slam title would vault Williams back to the top of the rankings and next in line to test her mettle against the modern queen of Melbourne Park is Britain's Johanna Konta.
Toronto Blue Jays left-hander J.A. Happ is in the midst of a career year, but the 33-year-old has endured nothing but trouble when testing his mettle against the Los Angeles Angels.
During one of them, the congressman introduced her "as a cardiologist with Orlando Health Regional Hospital" and "a doctor who showed her mettle and heroism after the Pulse nightclub shooting," according to the documents.
"She had never run for office before, beat someone who had run previously and had a lot of money, and really proved her mettle and capabilities when she was a real unknown," says Proud.
What to Expect After reaching the second round in Canada four years ago, where it was eliminated by France, South Korea returns to the World Cup with more experience and a bit of mettle.
For reasons unknown, Mr. Met disappeared in the 1970s, and in 1979, a new mascot was introduced — a mule named Mettle, whose job was to stride up and down the foul lines before games.
After playing their last six road games against their fellow Central Division representatives, the Dallas Stars will test their mettle versus a foe from the Pacific on Thursday as they visit the Arizona Coyotes.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will temporarily move some of its military personnel from the Al-Asad air base in Iraq that was targeted in an Iranian missile strike on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mettle Frederiksen said.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will temporarily move some of its military personnel from the Al-Asad air base in Iraq that was targeted in an Iranian missile strike on Wednesday, Prime Minister Mettle Frederiksen said.
We can guess that the Cherokee whose land they're on will come to accept them — Claire and Jamie aren't mere protagonists, they're heroes, and they will likely prove their mettle to the show's satisfaction.
In the sharply drawn relationship between Wendy and Maria, for example, there's a tacit sense of esprit de corps among women who are trying to operate in a hypermasculine environment that constantly tests their mettle.
They showed more mettle than the men and women who excused Donald Trump's behavior, including making him the leader of the free world after he was caught on video bragging about casually sexually assaulting women.
Johnson, whose sported a sometimes shambolic persona in his rise to power, showed mettle in office, sweeping away his predecessor's government in one of the biggest culls of senior government jobs in recent British history.
The president of the United States will be asked to make difficult, life-and-death decisions while in office, and at some point every candidate for office will have to prove their mettle to voters.
But the pressing question for Facebook — and one that will also test the mettle of the new data protection standard — is whether or not the company is doing enough to comply with the new rules.
He showed his mettle by battling through a tough start Sunday — his first seven holes resulted in six pars and a bogey — but got things going with back-to-back birdies before making the turn.
Robert enters into an arranged marriage with Elizabeth de Burgh (Florence Pugh), who is thoroughly unwowed by the match, and spurns her husband's bed, not from maidenly trepidation but as a test of male mettle.
Any lingering worries he might have had that his son lacked the political cunning and the ideological mettle to put an end to the two-state expectations raised by the Oslo peace accords were misplaced.
Ms. Pelosi remains intent on reclaiming the speakership, but in an interview on Wednesday she also acknowledged a handover of power was coming eventually, and she encouraged would-be successors to prove their political mettle.
Most actors dream of a big break as a romantic lead or action hero, but 19-year-old Tyler Alvarez gets to really prove his mettle on a fake documentary series full of dick jokes.
He also invoked his experience in the military as proof of his seasoning, and cited his identity as a gay man who campaigned for office in "Mike Pence's Indiana" as proof of his political mettle.
Mr. Lee died of lung cancer in 1996, and as his wife tells it, his final words to her changed the course of her life: "Now is the time to show your mettle," he said.
On Friday, Study Times, a party newspaper widely read by officials, devoted its front page to an adulatory profile of Mr. Xi that said he was blessed by his "red" upbringing with special leadership mettle.
In the late hours, she read books like Carson McCullers's "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" or Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking"; she liked learning authors' back stories and admired those with mettle.
Ryan Garcia is one of the best up and coming fighters on the planet but says he's still routinely challenged to street fights by macho idiots looking to test their mettle ... and it's becoming a problem.
In this first round for the GOP, Team Cruz once again proved its mettle -- far outpacing the efforts of Trump and Kasich in the scramble for delegates at each of the congressional district gatherings this week.
With the latest sequel, box office analysts expect Marvel to prove its earnings power and creative mettle by packing theaters for another massive team-up movie just one year after the Avengers last assembled on screen.
The battle over the future of the SNCF is as much a test of the mettle of unions, who have seen their influence decline since then, as for Macron's stomach in driving through his economic reforms.
A complex multi-million dollar transfer deal will be sure to throw up more questions and test the mettle – or the lawyers – of a man whose devotion to the bottom line earned him the name Neymarketing.
Vladimir Putin can use his proxies in the Donbas region to test the new commander-in-chief's mettle, and also has economic levers: even after five years of war, Russia remains Ukraine's single largest trading partner.
Other than a tweenage obsession with Duke Nukem 3D, I've been pretty much oblivious to developments in the genre, and my rare attempts to test my mettle online have unfailingly resulted in swift and humiliating death.
Ted Cruz took more shots at Trump in Fox News' debate -- and through it all, the billionaire businessman seemed to relish standing center stage, defending himself against foes and moderators while showing his mettle to supporters.
NATO's European members should show similar mettle by putting troops in the Baltic states—which will require a change of heart in countries, such as Italy, that see any display of resolve as needlessly provoking Russia.
ON MARCH 16th, in a move that may test the mettle of recalcitrant Senate Republicans, Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a widely respected and politically moderate judge, to fill the late Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat.
That Rajan is now headed for the exit underlines both Swamy's mettle as a political antagonist and the balance Modi must strike between modernizing India's economy and appeasing his nationalist vote bank that leans towards protectionism.
As far as I, Corbin Smith, the handsome writer is concerned, there is no better sport in the world than the NBA Playoffs: a nutty and unpredictable gauntlet that truly tests the mettle of the competitors.
It was a moment when Hewitt, Cronkite and their team proved their mettle, filtering all the unverified information and swirling rumors and find the truth that was conveyed to heartbroken Americans glued to their TV sets.
I had extensive conversations with administrators at three very different schools that have made such diversity a priority and were willing to discuss specific applicants whose mettle became evident only upon a closer consideration of circumstances.
It is Chicago's greatest inside joke with itself: a liqueur that no one likes but everyone loves, thanks to being both a good way to prank out-of-towners and an excellent measure of one's mettle.
"We find ourselves in extraordinary times that will likely test our mettle and strain our resources in the days ahead," said the note to colleagues from Kyle Cavanaugh, the vice president for administration and emergency coordinator.
As for much of New York, the '70s weren't easy for Mr. Met: The team phased him out in the later part of the decade, briefly replacing him with a pack animal named Mettle the Mule.
By contrast the new prime minister deals in stories and emotions, styling Brexit as a test of the country's mettle, an Odyssean quest, a heroic battle against the monsters of bureaucratic overreach, federalism and national stagnation.
Divining the intentions of 32 teams, evaluating scores of players, factoring in potential trades and coming up with a list of picks that makes sense tests the mettle of even the most informed fan or pundit.
The bee, which begins on Tuesday in an auditorium outside Washington and ends on Thursday with a live telecast on ESPN, will test the spelling mettle of a record 565 young people, age 7 to 15.
Presidential candidates often make announcements close to this date -- they cannot begin fundraising for a presidential run until they announce, and candidates will want to prove their mettle with a strong fundraising haul in the first quarter.
It's where Bentley and Porsche would prove their mettle, Ford would crush Ferrari to settle a beef, and, in 1955, fast cars and an even faster track claim 80 lives in the worst crash in motorsports history.
Berenberg's Holger Schmieding said Wednesday that Lagarde had "proved her mettle" in her French finance ministerial role and had displayed her ability to work well with Germany during the early days of the euro zone debt crisis.
Given that fact, some swimmers hoping to prove their mettle with a wintry dunk in the ocean said they came to the beach expecting this year to be their best chance to do so without chattering teeth.
IN A move that will test the mettle of recalcitrant Senate Republicans, on March 16th Barack Obama tapped Merrick Garland, a respected and politically moderate judge, to fill the late Antonin Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court.
Beginning with contests in those three states on August 7, and continuing on for nearly five consecutive weeks after that, progressive outsiders will test their mettle against establishment Democrats in elections from Hawaii to Delaware and Massachusetts.
But beyond showing their own mettle, the vice-presidential candidates also have the task of defending their running mates — an especially critical job this time around with such an intense focus on the top of the ticket.
There's still time for solid candidates to emerge -- or for the candidates that have announced to show their mettle -- but that they haven't done so yet is somewhat surprising given the heavily GOP nature of those states.
This is how Jay Leno found himself in the middle of the California desert at the Hyundai Proving Grounds – a blistering 72 mile stretch of "punishing roads", where non-street legal vehicles go to test their mettle.
That she was able to not let the moment get the better of her is a testament to her mettle in high-pressure situations, which bodes well for her hopes of racking up more Grand Slam titles.
Once or twice a decade a tropical storm or hurricane pushes powerful surges of water towards the Hawaiian Islands, generating perfect waves to test the mettle of the legions of experienced surfers who call the islands home.
And in a game that severely tested the depth and mettle of the Yankees' bullpen, Betances — a four-time All-Star who lost Girardi's confidence over the final stretch of the season — did not even warm up.
The aptly titled Star Wars Trivia Game is 30% off at Amazon and sells for only $13.99, and includes a whopping 650 questions to test the mettle of anyone who dares to call themselves a Jedi Master.
As women, they're more hesitant than men to run, and that, coupled with being lesbian, may make them pause several extra beats to be absolutely sure that their experience and mettle can eclipse any bigotry they confront.
The child who grows up feeling that her family's safety depends on her own composure, no matter how crazy the circumstances, steers herself again and again into adult jams where her mettle alone makes all the difference.
Other AR platforms, such as Microsoft HoloLens and Meta, certainly have entertainment and media applications, but the former is initially being marketed as an enterprise device, and the latter is still too early to prove its mettle.
As was very much the case this year, questions about the VP are far more likely to center on their impact on a swing state or on solidifying a crucial voting bloc than about experience and presidential mettle.
The two fighters, who had met once before in a competitive 2013 scrap, fought for the interim featherweight title, so that the division would be allowed keep moving while undisputed champ Conor McGregor tests his mettle at welterweight.
New recruits and old hands test their mettle with some sparring in a tricked-out virtual-reality techno-cocoon like the X-Men's Danger Room, or atop sweaty gym mats in some guano-covered corner of the Batcave.
While Moore rarely gets to steal an Us scene at the consistent frequency of a Milo Ventimiglia or an Emmy-winning Sterling K. Brown, this interaction proves Rebecca has a fearsome mettle we rarely get a glimpse of.
PARIS (Reuters) - French students and trade unions staged protest marches across the country on Wednesday against far-reaching labor reforms, testing President Francois Hollande's mettle as he tries to lower an unemployment rate still stuck above 103 percent.
Mario Cuomo's famous aphorism that, "You campaign in poetry; you govern in prose" to his son, CNN moderator Chris Cuomo, arguing that while Sanders has inspired votes she was the one with the mettle to succeed as president.
News Analysis It was a high-stakes political moment, far from the chummier confines of the "Today" show and, for Matt Lauer, NBC's stalwart of the morning, a chance to prove his broadcasting mettle on the presidential stage.
Tucker proved his mettle to investors who during the 19943 IPO questioned AIA's ability to expand in a region where not many insurers have been able to build a pan-regional footprint, constraining their ability to pay dividends.
She was especially esteemed for her ability to spin out haunting, sustained pianissimos — the whisper-quiet passages that are among the most demanding tests of a singer's mettle, entailing diaphragm strength and breath control akin to an athlete's.
Footballers have also looked to prove their mettle online, with Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois joining Formula One drivers Max Verstappen and Lando Norris in the virtual Australian Grand Prix that was dubbed the 'Not the Aus GP'.
Photo: AmazonFor those averse to talking on the phone, hotel stays can resemble a war of attrition, testing your mettle to see how long you'll go without calling the front desk and admitting you forgot to pack your toothbrush.
Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Kelda Roys more than proved her mettle at that skill in her new campaign ad, where she effortlessly breastfeeds her infant daughter while talking about her work to make baby bottles and sippy cups BPA-free.
Mettle had made a name for itself over the last few years by providing these plug-ins for Adobe tools like Premiere Pro and After Effects, so the Adobe team was obviously aware of Mettle's efforts in the area.
In recent years, Petrobras has given wage increases well in excess of inflation, and this year's annual negotiations are shaping up as a test of mettle for new Chief Executive Officer Pedro Parente, who has pledged to cut costs.
He was talking about the Russian troop transports that cross the Suwalki Gap regularly and the fear expressed by many Baltic leaders that they could suddenly stop and Russian troops could quietly disembark to test NATO and Baltic mettle.
LONDON (Reuters) - The most senior bankers to face criminal charges in Britain over conduct during the financial crisis are preparing to appear before a London jury in a trial that will test the mettle of the Serious Fraud Office.
Many predicted big things that might test the mettle of a businessman unfamiliar with international threats; others thought something might occur that would allow the new administration to "shake out" their processes and decision-making with less significant implications.
So if The Wailing is a kind of Old Testament fable, then it may be less about Job's personal tragedy and more about the tower of Babel: a chaos ordered by the divine to test the mettle of men.
Vettel showed all his mettle in Canada, however, when he started on the front row, dropped to last and came back through the field to fourth with a fighting display that earned him the Driver of the Day award.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Karolina Pliskova suffered a narrow U.S. Open defeat at the hands of Angelique Kerber on Saturday, but the Czech 10th seed also proved her mettle as one of the most dangerous attacking players in women's tennis.
But even when bullshit is staring you right in the eye, it still takes mettle to call it out for what it is, and present yourself fully formed, with complete self-acceptance, and dare people to say anything otherwise.
As she prepares for that tournament, where she achieved her greatest success at a major, Bouchard was asked if she could take any comfort in the mettle she had showed by battling back in the second set against Bacsinszky.
Perhaps this obscene phenomenon, which afflicts victims of every age, color, and geographic location, is better understood as self-destruction: The body politic bleeds again and again, while our faith in democracy's mettle is weakened, if not eliminated altogether.
Texas opened 2017 by getting swept at home by Cleveland, but the two-time defending division champion has proved its mettle since by taking two of three from Oakland and doing the same in Los Angeles against the Angels.
Making his first run for public office, Mr. Stefanowski, a longtime business executive who lives in Madison, showed his mettle in the August primary by beating four Republican challengers, including the party's designee, with 29 percent of the vote.
President Obama's stump speech for Black Lives Matter at Tuesday's memorial service for the slain Dallas police officers proved he has none of the mettle of a leader and all of the weakness of character of a fearful follower.
But he still needs 28,22 people to donate to him by August 225 (and get at least 2 percent in four polls) to qualify for the third primary debate in mid-September and prove his mettle against rival candidates.
The Affordable Care Act incorporated Republican ideas but, as Biden notes, didn't receive a single Republican vote (and far from Biden proving his mettle in that fight, he was among the administration voices counseling Obama against comprehensive health reform).
Political opponents are seeking to use the scandal to bring voters out on Sunday to test the government's mettle as it gears up for a referendum on constitutional reform in October on which Renzi has staked the future of his government.
YouTuber Beware The Flood was driving around with his girlfriend looking for a gym—basically the Pokémon equivalent of a boss battle—to test their mettle at, when they realized the in-game map was directing them towards a strip club.
Woodley says he has tremendous respect for GSP -- and is congratulating him on an incredible run in the UFC ... but Tyron admits he's sad he never got an opportunity to test his mettle against one of the greatest of all time.
Justify, the burly chestnut son of Scat Daddy out of the Ghostzapper mare Stage Magic, already has proven his mettle, as he became the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby without a start at 2 since Apollo in 1882.
When asked to draw a contrast with Trump here at Mabe's Pizza, Cruz argued that he was campaigning in the true "Iowa way," and also rattled off a series of fights that showed his mettle while others ran away from.
Wife-carrying as a sport drew inspiration from the 19th century legend of Ronkainen the Robber, who compelled would-be members of his gang to prove their mettle by carrying sacks of grain or live pigs over a similar course.
In a pathological house run by women, where even among the ubiquitous male servants and carpenters, there's no man to take charge, it becomes clear that the cocky psychiatrist will have to prove his mettle by protecting these imperiled women.
Again Halep showed her mettle to stay alive but it still seemed in vain until she leveled at 5-5 and then went 40-0 up on Svitolina's serve before the Ukrainian rallied to take the set into a tiebreak.
In a totally real scene (with a tenuous grasp on reality), Ren participates in a holy-shit-that's-dangerous game of chicken with industrial tractors to prove his mettle to Chuck, leaving one tractor wrecked and Chuck in a ravine.
The first time I tested my mettle on a Hawaiian long board, I was 32 and fearless — perfect attributes for catching oversize waves and experiencing long, exhilarating runs (as well as mash-ups with underwater coral and rough-hewed lava rocks).
The last time they faced significant doubt — and even then, it was hardly from a majority of pundits — was before the 21966 finals when, as a group of upstarts, the Warriors had to prove their mettle against LeBron James's Cleveland Cavaliers.
Elected in 2016 as a champion of gun control, Ms. Murphy said she had worked closely with Everytown on legislation, and said Mr. Bloomberg had shown his political mettle by backing groups like the League of Conservation Voters and Planned Parenthood.
The inaugural episode of John Dickerson's podcast contains one of the show's better stories: the famed "Nashua Moment" in which Ronald Reagan showed his mettle to voters by lashing out at a moderator at a New Hampshire debate in 1980.
A week after the Women's March choked off Washington on the new President's first full day in office, a new activist coalition was proving its mettle again - and sending a message to shell-shocked Democratic politicos: Join up or shut up.
But a series of startups in fintech, which owes much of its success to the global financial crisis of 21-20.7602, when people lost faith in banks and other financial institutions and sought alternatives, are already showing their adaptive mettle.
Too often in such films and books there's a longing, however concealed, for some prelapsarian moment when right and wrong, good guys and bad, seem to have been helpfully demarcated, and every day provided the opportunity to display one's mettle.
The two of them emerged more clearly than ever as the Kennedy and Nixon of the Republican race, one counting on charisma, the other on voters' fears that all that stands between them and ruin is a warrior whose stridency proves his mettle.
The whole setup seemed very Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome meets Return of the Jedi, especially once the oddly-spoken leader Jadis tossed Rick into a pit to fight against an armored walker with swords and spikes shoved through it to prove his mettle.
Not for long mind you: I drove it around Tesla's Fremont factory in an extended loop on city streets, but I still got to test its mettle on some relatively long, unbroken stretches of road, push the accelerator and throw it around corners.
If we must grade Trump officials on a curve, though, the appropriate test isn't whether Kelly has the mettle to fire a middling buffoon, but whether he can restrain the one who inhabits the Oval Office from gutting the rule of law.
Justify, the burly chestnut son of Scat Daddy out of the Ghostzapper mare Stage Magic, already has proven his mettle, as he became the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby without a start as a 2-year-old since Apollo in 1882.
Ms. Ziegler's "Actually," which centers on two Princeton undergraduates whose "moral mettle is put to the test" when they meet, according to a news release from the theater, will have its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles this spring.
This is a part of the game where Evan has to prove his mettle in a kind of trial in order to progress the narrative, and Thogg, while pretty brutish looking, is merely a lumbering ape compared to the deadly majesty of Longfang.
Although This Is Us star Mandy Moore has certainly proven her mettle as a performer, she's not a dancer by trade, and it's only a coincidence that the choreographer (whose full moniker is actually Samantha Jo Moore) shares a name with the actress-slash-singer.
Ellen's father, Jim Langford (Neil Crone), intends to retire and leave her in charge of Home & Hearth, the company he started with his best friend, her "Uncle" Zeke Daniels (Anthony Sherwood), many years before — as long as she proves her mettle in one final gauntlet.
He might look like a goofy dad, the narrator implies, but he has the same mettle as Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt (forget for a moment that Roosevelt once ran for president as a Progressive, championing powerful central government and protective legislation for workers in 1912).
And the reality is that nuclear and missile technology in the hands of such a narcissistic national actor tests the mettle of the international community to address challenges to peace, and of China to be a responsible part of that community and do its part.
"The President highly values the service of men and women who comprise our All-Volunteer force and have proven their mettle in our missions worldwide, including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq," Ned Price, spokesman for the National Security Council, told CNN Friday in a statement.
The battle between each league's batting champion continues as four-time winner Miguel Cabrera will test his mettle versus Fernandez for the first time in his career while Miami's Dee Gordon is 2-for-3 lifetime against Wednesday starter and former Marlin Anibal Sanchez.
I'm not suggesting that ethics or experience, among other things, don't matter — of course they do, and under any other administration, unproven mettle and opacity in those zones might well have barred a candidate from becoming an official member of the president's inner circle.
Still, part of Biden's ability to prove his mettle against Trump is showing broader appeal to the base of the Democratic Party -- an ability to win over ardent progressives and voters of color who will play an outsized role in choosing the Democratic nominee.
Yet given Brooks' outward desire to test his mettle in the UFC, and Bellator's unsavory history of refusing to let disgruntled fighters go—see: Eddie Alvarez and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson—it was nice to see them let Brooks depart without putting up a fight.
And while the Yankees have shown their mettle against the other contenders in the American League — the defending champion Houston Astros, the A.L. Central-leading Cleveland Indians and the Red Sox — they have also won just four of eight games against the hapless Orioles.
Still, to conjure Bacall while in bed with Gosling — he could be her Bogie — is more than just a nod to likeness, it's the murmurings of screen lineage and the pure mettle invoked by narrowing her stare and dipping her chin and looking altogether … fizzy.
But if Neom proves its competitive mettle and attracts residents by keeping its promises of better rules to live and work by, that could just play a role in moving the whole country further along in terms of gender parity, open justice, and efficient commercial law.
As a result, even in this new, more chaotic political environment, New Hampshire still has the kind of intimate, civically minded electorate, as well as deep grassroots tradition of participation needed to make this state an ideal place to thoroughly test the mettle of our future presidents.
" The latest, from AP: "North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed [today] his nation will 'demonstrate its mettle to the U.S.' ... The hard line suggests more tests are being prepared as the country tries to perfect nuclear-armed missiles capable of striking anywhere in the United States.
Vasilevskiy showed his mettle when Rick Nash, who avoided a hip check from Hedman along the boards, cut in in to the post near the right circle for a chance in tight, only to have Vasilevskiy hold his ground and make a stop with 58 seconds left.
With Gronkowski scoring 79 touchdowns in his career, it's hard to single out one that typified his style of play, but a 19-yard catch-and-run against the Kansas City Chiefs in 2011, Gronkowski's second season, revealed the kind of mettle he brought to every snap.
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday defended his decision to fast-track Russian citizenship for some residents of separatist regions of eastern Ukraine, a move widely seen as possibly prolonging the war there and testing the mettle of the country's novice president-elect.
Being 21 or older — there's no age cap — and passing a medical exam, administered before the rest of training begins, as well as "The Right Stuff"-like tests of mind and mettle, like a spin in a human centrifuge (even the YouTube videos are hard to stomach).
As for the shows themselves, medical dramas have made a comeback, reboots and reality shows have lost some of their luster, a veteran producer has proved his mettle yet again and a new front in the late-night wars has opened between Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon.
Players at such an exalted level are so skilled and versatile these days that any new hurdles must have been minor, and the orchestra that James Levine built has by now proved its mettle on the concert stage as well as in the pit many times over.
Katy Perry, who has served hit after hit to the pop market and climbed the musical ranks all the way to a performance at the Super Bowl halftime show, is to try her hand at a gig that's tested the mettle of many a celebrity before her.
Playlist: "Spin the Black Circle" / "Rearviewmirror" / "Habit" / "Lukin" / "Grievance" / "Green Disease" / "Comatose" / "Got Some" / "Mind Your Manners" Spotify | Apple Music Starting with Vitalogy, Pearl Jam began writing records for themselves, or maybe they just wanted to test the mettle of the people coming to their concerts.
When the hero ventures into a mystical underworld for a mettle-testing, character-forging struggle with giant rats and bats, and the whole pivotal set piece is chopped down to a fleeting montage, it's obvious that the finished film wasn't what any of its makers had in mind.
In her speech in San Diego last Thursday on Donald Trump's "dangerously incoherent" foreign policy, Hillary Clinton struck a decisive body blow against her presumptive Republican rival, putting him on the defensive and reassuring Democrats who feared that Clinton might not have the mettle to take on Trump.
Even as drones have come into their own and aircraft like the A-2628 "Warthog" continue to prove their mettle in the Middle East, the military services continue to insist on buying the same number of F-28503 fighters (almost 22019,500) that they did more than a decade ago.
"The Iranians are going to continue to test his mettle and we will soon be at the come-to-Mohammed moment," said Reuel Marc Gerecht, a former C.I.A. specialist on Iran at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who believes a military response at some point may be necessary.
Yet Cotter also pointed out that this will have an effect behind the scenes too, in terms of labor: MoMA's organizational mettle will be under stress … I suspect the new schedule will keep MoMA staff up late working nights, which, of course, young people can do, no problem.
"I'll keep trying anyway, though," he says, which Gilgamesh accepts as proof of Gladio's mettle, suggesting that this Trial—which even Cor has not completed, barely escaping with his life 30 years ago—is probably just an excuse for people to smack monsters with a sword real hard.
But as the famously scripted governor campaigns for a seat in the United States Senate, Hurricane Michael is delivering a high-stakes meteorological surprise that is testing his government's mettle and allowing him to dominate the airwaves more than just about anyone who is not a weather forecaster.
But, Parker still had to blow past Dimitrenko to maintain that role and it was the perfect way for Parker to prove his mettle against a man who will enjoy a distinct size and reach advantage over him—something Joshua will certainly hold over the Auckland, New Zealand, native.
OpenAI researchers have encountered this many times in their research, and in order to test generalizable AI knowledge at a basic level, they've designed a sort of AI arcade where an agent has to prove its mettle in a variety of games with varying overlap of gameplay concepts.
WUKAN, China/BEIJING (Reuters) - This month's crackdown on protests in China's Wukan village was ordered by the provincial leader under pressure to prove his mettle ahead of a pivotal Communist Party congress next year where he could reach the top table of power in China, sources close to the leadership say.
"Those who've systematically attacked the noble people of Venezuela in all kinds of ways will once again be confronted with the mettle and courage that we, the children of our liberator Simón Bolívar, have demonstrated in the face of difficulties," Communications Minister Jorge Rodríguez said, according to the Associated Press.
I had regarded it as an honor and a privilege to be counted among the members of a community that had proved its mettle, its intelligence, and its genius by surviving and sometimes flourishing amid the most resourceful and sustained effort to destroy its humanity the world has ever seen.
Osaka, 22, showed that mettle most unmistakably during the 2018 United States Open final against Serena Williams, closing out a title even as Williams got into heated arguments with the umpire over penalties and the crowd booed what they felt was unfair treatment for the 22019-time Grand Slam champion.
"I think it's perfectly OK to have complex feelings towards people like Joe Biden and I continue to have complex feelings," said Kattie Mettle of Maryland, who is passionate about the environment and winning back the White House and is among voters weighing both as they consider new allegations against Biden.
" From the columnist Charles Blow, writing about teenagers and self-acceptance: "Life is an endless negotiation with ourselves and with the world about who we are — the truest truth of who we are — and whether we have the mettle to simply be us, all of us, as we are, backlash notwithstanding.
For 15 weeks since the fall, the top spot on the Billboard singles chart has been occupied by one of two Ariana Grande mega-smashes — "Thank U, Next" and "7 Rings" — that drip with the mettle and coquettish swagger of a pop diva, while borrowing from hip-hop beats and cadences.
Listen to this week's Keeping Score podcast: A wrap-up of the week in sports news: Mettle for medals: Recent North Korean missile tests may have rattled world leaders, but Olympic athletes bound for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, this upcoming February say they're not concerned with growing regional tensions.
Such tradecraft must also be applied outside North Korea and Asia against the businesses and banks in Europe, South America and elsewhere that enable Kim's criminal empire to flourish; bankers and businessmen are less likely to have the mettle to resist a late-night visit by men who could ruin their lives.
Some say that Congress itself may not have the mettle to crack down so hard: Nicholas Burns, a former senior U.S. diplomat and now a professor at Harvard, tells Axios that there is a "trust-busting spirit coming out of Europe," but that he is not certain it will spread to the U.S. And Sen.
Though the UFC did their best to keep the featherweight division moving by crowning Jose Aldo the interim champion in McGregor's stead, this plan flopped when Aldo became so disillusioned with the state of things that he asked to be released from his contract so he could test his mettle in another sport altogether.
From Tel Aviv to Palo Alto, New York to London, entrepreneurs have created in the last handfuls of years an eclectic arsenal of innovations that are already beginning to show their mettle in the battle against climate change, as well as their potential to help the bottom lines of a wide swath of businesses.
The resulting jitters, exacerbated by economic stagnation and mostly small but widespread protests that erupted this summer, have left Russia's numerous law-enforcement bodies scrambling to prove their mettle against potential threats, no matter how puny, and secure their future in a country they all view as a fortress besieged by enemies at home and abroad.
Former New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis argued that such an event would not just be a messaging exercise but a useful way to test a candidate's mettle for the job with a real-world crisis: All the candidates want to curb fossil fuel emissions, but there is far from a consensus on how to do it.
Mr Xi's diffidence in such areas may stem from the mandate he had from the elders who helped him into the jobs he now holds: a broad spectrum of retired and serving leaders and their powerful families who felt that without a helmsman of his mettle and commitment to the party's survival, the party might collapse.
Poetic justice would thus have been Baker ripping return winner after return winner and beating Tomic in a five-set mettle detector before delivering a heartfelt Ted Talk to Tomic at the net about making the most of your talent right here, right now, because you never know what anvil might fall on your head tomorrow.
Kim "stressed that the protracted showdown with the U.S. imperialists has reached its final phase and it is the time for [North Korea] to demonstrate its mettle to the U.S., which is testing its will in defiance of its warning," according to the AP. North Korea claimed earlier this week it launched its first intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
"To the extent that she's presenting herself as the person most capable of taking the fight to Trump, the Kavanaugh experience proved that she has the mettle to be aggressive and not back down to Republicans," said Brian Fallon, executive director of Demand Justice, a left-leaning non-profit that aims to increase the number of Democratic appointees on the federal bench.
If Red Sister Ching-ling was Mao's most glamorous ambassador, little sister May-ling proved her mettle in the United States, where she toured for eight months to secure support for her husband's regime during World War II. In 1943, when she addressed Congress dressed in a silk cheongsam and speaking impeccable American English, she mesmerized every politician in America and earned a four-minute standing ovation.
Wheaton is continually renewing and testing the caliber of its intellectual mettle in the wider academy: Every year we send out students who have been admitted into some of the best graduate schools, hire faculty members who have been trained in major research universities, and have professors present their research at the conferences of leading learned societies and publish it in peer-review journals.
He wrote guidebooks and lectured for the cognoscenti, Americans and Canadians who appreciated the history, topography and perilous beauty of their wilderness strongholds, and for those who hoped to test their mettle on glacial escarpments with rope, ice ax and aching limbs for the reward of standing on the crown of a mountain called Terror or Despair, overlooking a vast panorama of the world.
New York won 2000 of its 23 regular-season games last year, the fourth-best record in the AL. The Yankees proved their mettle by ousting the Cleveland Indians, whose total of 220 regular-season wins was the AL's best, in the first round of the playoffs, and taking the 22013-win Astros to a decisive seventh game in the second round before falling to the eventual champions.
" And her review of Richard Ford's "Canada" sounds positively love-struck from the first paragraph on: "He cuts a transfixing figure for even an ordinary reader's curiosity: the book-jacket photographs with their silvery bronze patina suggesting a pale-eyed cattle rustler, his laser-blue gaze smudged simultaneously with apprehension and derring-do, a Tin Woodman tint evoking a man of metal and mettle, in sorrowful quest of his forgotten heart.
It is honestly the strangest moment in this thing, because it involves one player no one could possibly care less about, Caris LeVert, deciding that the weight of the world is on his shoulders and that it is time for him to prove his mettle and just fucking failing colossally, while another player, who will probably be in the Hall of Fame, seals the game for his team just by hustling for a rebound.
But that isn't really the case, as one comes to instead position these events within the narrative selected at the start—a particularly dreadful catastrophe can be seen as just another trial that the survivors of the doomed ship will have to endure before making it back to civilization, whilst that same catastrophe in the bougie backpacker scenario will put the mettle of the explorer to the test and bring home the danger of these frontier worlds.
With more than a dozen galleries scattered across America, Europe and Asia to entice artists with dreams of global conquest — like Damien Hirst, who was so taken with the idea that he ran a competition, offering a signed print to any with the means or mettle to visit his concurrent shows at every Gagosian outpost in 22017 — Gagosian, together with a small number of fellow mega-dealers, has presided over an art market in a fantastically lucrative boom.
Hip-hop was still, as the music mogul Lyor Cohen says, "a powerful little secret running through America," but it was bubbling to the surface — Blondie's 1981 hit "Rapture" name-checked the hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy and featured him in its video; a popular trio of white kids called the Beastie Boys endearingly wedded hip-hop mettle with adolescent impishness; and Run-DMC released the first rap album to go gold — before falling prey to internal battles incited by the myriad hustles of an underground industry.
Rapsody: It really shows the mettle of a person when they can put their fame and their career and their money aside to do what's right at the end of the day and a lot comes with that when you put yourself on that pedestal and you become the face of that you get a lot of stones thrown at you ... I support Colin Kaepernick 110% and I think when it's said and done and we look back at his legacy and what he means to history, we'll love and regard him in the same way we did Muhammad Ali.

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