The leader s heroic image and glorious deeds are now blasphemed daily.

During the German occupation, my father was also a heroic figure.

(Heroism survives, in part, in the romanticized idea of the heroic entrepreneur. )

During 2013 Uttrakhand Floods, Indian armed forces demonstrated heroic courage in rescue operations.

In modern societies, institutional constraints such as constitutions and impersonal legal systems circumscribe such heroic figures.

It was adapted by John Dryden in his very successful heroic drama Oedipus , licensed in 1678.

This shift to heroic leadership can be seen in ballooning CEO compensation.

Some years ago, I proposed that every country should add to its monuments to heroism some monuments to its national shame.

Martha Gellhorn, who's one of my heroes, once said, You can only love one war. The rest is responsibility.

The role of heroic leadership in war leads to overemphasis of command and control and hard military power.

Anger at the Israeli government is palpable in Turkey, and returning activists are being greeted by officials among hero fan fare.

In spite of the heroic response of Member States in providing humanitarian assistance, we believe that humanitarian assistance is not a substitute for prevention or action to reduce risks associated with natural disasters, such as creating an early warning system to warn of future tsunamis and other natural disasters.

Before the operation, traditional heroic songs were sung, while a few older women sharpened their knives, preparing for the task ahead.

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

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

But if the douceur of sports can channel aggressive passions into benign, if trivial pursuits, why should we deny our star performers their heroic stature?

At least it s a recovery, they claim, and a sign of healing that can be attributed mainly to the heroic, unconventional efforts of the US Federal Reserve.

The old Soviet iconography has broken down completely despite heroic efforts, not even Putin could restore Lenin, Stalin, and the old Soviet pantheon.

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

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

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

And I think people were amazed at two things I think they were amazed at the destruction, but I think there was a sense of disbelief about the heroics of New Yorkers that I found very moving.

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

But heroic rescue efforts will not be able to help the government forever, so it is worth asking what can provide long term political legitimacy.

Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round the world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far in its quest to map the ocean s biodiversity.

Those who have survived Ebola have remarkable tales of resilience and heroic care from local health workers, but also of sadness and rejection because of ignorance about the disease. On Aug.

Our dear Führer Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess sat in prison for what they believed in, we shall not depart from their principles and heroic efforts, on the contrary we shall follow in their footsteps and fight for what we believe in, namely a Norway built on National Socialism a

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

Or and this is the fun part for me we want you to take us out into the natural world. We'll come with a design challenge and we find the champion adapters in the natural world, who might inspire us.

The term Отечественная война (Patriotic War or Fatherland War) was officially recognized by establishment of the Order of the Patriotic War on 20 May 1942, awarded for heroic deeds.

The officially prescribed musical diet of North Koreans consists of patriotic hymns to the Communist Party, odes to the Dear Leader, to his father, the Great Leader, Kim Il Song, and to the heroic spirit of the Korean people.

Colombia s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, who as defense minister in Uribe's second government was responsible for the army s most spectacular exploits against the FARC, is probably the best equipped politician to build on this success.

So situations have the power to do, through but the point is, this is the same situation that can inflame the hostile imagination in some of us, that makes us perpetrators of evil, can inspire the heroic imagination in others. It's the same situation.

But the main reason for this new solidarity between Western right wing populists and the state of Israel might lie deeper than shared antipathy toward Islam. No state is static, and Israel has changed a great deal since the heroic decades after its founding in 1948.

So the psychology of heroism is we're going to end in a moment how do we encourage children in new hero courses, that I'm working with Matt Langdon he has a hero workshop to develop this heroic imagination, this self labeling, I am a hero in waiting, and teach them skills.

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