How To Use Hardiness In A Sentence
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For thousands of years nomadic tribes of the Middle East have bred a hunting hound called the saluki. The slender, silky coated canine is known for its hardiness, stamina, intelligence, and speed.
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We observed no significant condition interactions for total life stress, negative life-event stress, or hardiness.
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The technician was sent to measure the hardiness of the material.
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But she was seized by that excess of bravery which is called foolhardiness, and driven by it to that peculiar and thoughtless vehemence of action which sometimes wins V. C.'s for men who, in later days, conceal amazement under the cherished decoration.
The Prophet of Berkeley Square
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This has been spoken of as an evidence of bravery; but, regarded in this light, it was only superfluous evidence of a fact which no one ever doubted; it really deserves better to be called foolhardiness, as Captain Penrose, who was one of the party, frankly described it in his Diary.
Abraham Lincoln
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Meanwhile fellow travellers can only admire the hardiness of the last great explorer, now 83.
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Hardiness zones are indications of the average minimum temperatures for different areas of the country.
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The slender, silky coated canine is known for its hardiness, stamina, intelligence, and speed.
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The people here are known for their hardiness and courage.
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Their frugality, intense militarism and hardiness stood them in very good stead, as did their love of what contemporaries called liberty: freedom from foreign control.
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In a few species the cocoons built for winter contribute to cold hardiness, at least by preventing inoculative freezing by keeping ice crystals away from the surface of the body.
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While we wondered at their street-corner, street-clothed hardiness a couple of other toughies turned up.
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It will be foolhardiness on our part if we choose to shut ourselves in a dream-world of our own or in our exclusivism, cut ourselves off from the energising and creative forces shaping a new world.
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It is also more disease resistant due to a looser cluster and has greater winter hardiness, which is critical for the Finger Lakes region.
Sips and Slurps (October 14, 2008)
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The British War Office prized this horse for war use because of its strength, endurance, hardiness, disposition, tractability and unflappability.
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While I initially had doubts about the kind of foolhardiness that leads to thinking one will succeed where others have not, after trying Bonsai, I think the restaurant has a good chance of breaking past cycles of bad luck, if only because I don't think luck bears on a restaurant's success or failure.
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The accumulation of two cryoprotective polyols, sorbitol and threitol, is integral to the extraordinary cold-hardiness of this beetle.
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
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And sir, said Sir Dinas, ye shall understand that Sir Tristram is called peerless and makeless of any Christian knight, and of his might and hardiness we knew none so good a knight, but if it be
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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Verhoef HA (1997) Cold hardiness in the collembolan
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Bartone, et al. report that their forty-five items correlate -.93 with the older, longer, and most frequently used hardiness measure taken as a whole and -.71 when only nonredundant items are used.7 With regard to the psychometric viability of this measure, investigators show internal reliability figures ranging from .62 to .82 for the component scores and at .85 for the total score.
Handbook of Stress
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The differences in supercooling capacities were attributed to interpopulational variation in cold hardiness, as putatively manifested by the presence of an ‘endogenous nucleator,’ in the Illinois turtles.
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Most of the time, you're too real and human for that - your dorkiness, foolhardiness or vulnerability show through.
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Its wild, demoniac laughter awakens the echoes on the solitary lakes, and its ferity and hardiness are kindred to those robust spirits.
Birds and Poets : with Other Papers
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They came to throw their son at your face and see if you regret your foolhardiness.
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More extraordinary is that as time went on, instead of criticism for incompetence and foolhardiness, Scott continued to attract hero-worship.
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There's no excuse for such foolhardiness-you could have been killed.
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Some of the students, however, blamed Helmar for what they termed his foolhardiness in interfering.
Under the Rebel's Reign
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the plan required great hardiness of heart
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Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man's person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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Ah! fair damosel, said Balin, worthiness, and good tatches, and good deeds, are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship is hid within man’s person, and many a worshipful knight is not known unto all people, and therefore worship and hardiness is not in arrayment.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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He drew daily, favoring the broken stumps and butt ends of Conte crayons to achieve hardiesse, which sounds like "hardiness" but really means "audacity.
Even Mightier Than The Pen
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Courage in excess become foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
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Even foolhardiness, that is boldness without an object, is not to be despised; in point of fact it is the same energy of feeling, only exercised as a kind of passion without any co-operation of the intelligent faculties.
On War — Volume 1
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Defoe's impetuosity and foolhardiness extended to his business affairs.
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We have trialed a number of achimenes for winter hardiness and are always thrilled when we find another cultivar to add to our list.
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This session started with an ego-strengthening metaphor, using the tree as a symbol of strength, power, hardiness and beauty.
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On his own initiative, he launched himself on a course of self-improvement that bolstered the inner quality that positive psychologist Salvatore Maddi calls "hardiness.
Jeff Wise: Forging a Soul of Iron
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Life is a precious gift from God, and no one has a right to risk his life in a rash foolhardiness, which is very different from the true courage which does not shrink from facing danger if the life of one more helpless than himself is in peril.
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
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It involves natural-looking gardens and swathes of grasses mixed with drifts of perennials chosen for their shape, color and hardiness.
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Angus breeding is practiced to a large extent in the west and north-west, where its qualities of hardiness and ability to thrive under less favourable grazing conditions are well recognised.
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Meurons, Frances used to expostulate against what she called my foolhardiness in making these evening visits; but their presence made no difference to me.
Lords of the North
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Such experience bred self-reliance and general hardiness among the settlers.
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A similar effect will also be felt in the northward shift of what is known as the hardiness zones -- meaning that northern countries where allergies were once rare may no longer be as safe.
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WSU reports characteristics as awned with white glumes, excellent winter hardiness, and stiff straw.
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This man's boldness-or foolhardiness-has been lampooned in the press and joked about all over the world.
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The little wiry bushes that grow all over Yosemite seem to be barely scathed by the flames in places, a tribute to their hardiness.
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One of the earliest methods used to increase yield and hardiness was the domestication of plants.
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Socrates had come to regard death as for himself preferable to life; and consequently there is just a suspicion of foolhardiness in the arrogancy of his address. 5
The Apology of Socrates
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The passing away of Basu - India's longest-serving chief minister whose unbroken 23-year-old rule of a Left Front coalition in West Bengal state is a history in itself - is seen as a blow to the communist movement in India, wilting under fragile unity, political "foolhardiness" and lack of pragmatic icons.
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Traits such as hardiness can be selected for or ignored.
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Agropyron intermedium stem-rust resistance leaf-rust resistance stripe-rust resistance streak-mosaic resistance virus resistance leaf pubescence cold hardiness
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The cattalo took the hardiness of the buffalo, and never required artificial food or shelter.
The Last of the Plainsmen
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My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire, but that verges on foolhardiness.
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Although there are other genistas suitable for the rock garden, the species vary in hardiness and habit.
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Most are bizarre and interesting, but they often lack the hardiness and exotic colors of the coral fishes.
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One opposite to courage is cowardice, but another is rashness, foolhardiness.
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Vidal blanc, a French hybrid grape, is a grape that doesn't get enough respect (a problem many hybrids face) but it does particularly well in the cool climate of the Finger Lakes where it's winter hardiness makes it a somewhat safer choice than vinifera varieties.
The New York Cork Report:
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Select high-yielding varieties with good straw strength, winter hardiness, and resistance to the important diseases in your area.
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The tasty flavour is more akin to spring greens and it has great winter hardiness.
The Sun
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My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire, but that verges on foolhardiness.
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Cold hardiness includes both widespread tolerance to freezing and extreme supercooling ability, as well as unusual responses in a few species, such as lack of typical cryoprotectants.
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The lethality, hardiness, and ease of production of the anthrax bacteria have made it a mainstay of known BW programs.
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In another paradox, man will become stronger after his ‘overthrow’ by God, and more capable of full love and devotion to God; however, a call for such violence already betokens a certain hardiness of spirit.
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If you're a novice gardener who doesn't know a gazania from a geranium, you might be wondering what "plant hardiness zone" refers to on the information tags for flowers, trees, and other plants you've seen at your local gardening center or home center.
Tip of the Day: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map can help you pick the right flowers and trees
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Angus breeding is practiced to a large extent in the west and north-west, where its qualities of hardiness and ability to thrive under less favourable grazing conditions are well recognised.
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But used with caution, African plants help to provide variety and hardiness in Australian gardens.
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The foolhardiness of playing into that would be so great that we ought to question Roberts' judgement if he does.
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Once he got a chance, he could explain that he was only worried about her, that he was afraid that her bravery (better not call it "foolhardiness") would be stronger than her fear, and she would end up in trouble-
The Robin And The Kestrel
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Dinas, ye shall understand that Sir Tristram is called peerless and makeless of any Christian knight, and of his might and hardiness we knew none so good a knight, but if it be Sir Launcelot du Lake.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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He showed his usual disregard for danger-an attitude his friends called bravery and his enemies foolhardiness.
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The first was hardiness, which is noted when it is said that he went to the prince of the priests, and as the gloss saith, not called, but by his own will and envy that enticed him.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2
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The development of hardiness is so crucial for survival that many boreal and temperate zone woody species have evolved latitudinal ecotypes, differing in their timing of growth cessation and cold acclimation.
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N.E. HANSE., HORTICULTURIST, BROOKINGS, S.D. By the term hardiness is understood the capacity to resist against any special condition of environment.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916
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Courage in excess becomes foolhardiness, affection weakness, thrift avarice.
