The explorers slaughtered the braves. Sweeney Horribly.

But what gave us hope were these incredibly dedicated and brave volunteers three of whom here are force feeding penguins.

Many brave Iranians were prepared to risk their lives to defend their beliefs.

Many brave people have risked or lost their lives in defense of this freedom.

Thank God and thanks to all those brave Allied soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the sake of Europe s liberty.

It was in the use of such ships that courageous seamen like Constantine Kanaris won international renown.

Courageous Iranians who have labored to reform their country may continue to feel as though they are plowing the seas.

We would like to take this opportunity to pay a high tribute to those courageous fighters who sacrificed their lives during the anti fascist war.

And I was sitting side by side with one of our very courageous lawyers, and said, How can we get this out? How can we make sure that this is implemented?

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

After Rabin s assassination, the notion has been gaining ground that any Israeli Palestinian accord would be the peace of the exhausted, not Rabin s peace of the brave.

The challenge is to commit to this approach, to scale up and to support to the hilt the brave people who take on the challenge of holding power to account.

And rather than supporting and encouraging such brave humanitarians like Parveen Rehman who d dedicated as well as put their lives on the line, to help the poorest in the region live better lives, they are instead murdered.

Historically, sovereign lending was a job for a few intrepid financiers, who drove shrewd bargains and were adept at statecraft.

So the long term could be long in coming. Courageous Iranians who have labored to reform their country may continue to feel as though they are plowing the seas.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA Noé Diakubama, an emigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in Paris, is one of this century s intrepid pioneers.

While their courageous supporters espouse tolerance and practice non violence, they are overwhelmed by armed government forces who are willing to kill and die to retain power.

We saw many brave Iraqis turn out to vote for a new Government on 30 January and, again, for a new constitution on 15 October.

Ban generously and inspiringly offered his support to the brave youth leaders in both countries who are at the forefront of the political changes set in motion this year.

The continued targeting of such brave workers is posing a severe challenge to these countries public health communities and their collective ambition to reach every child with lifesaving vaccines.

We cannot send brave UN staff 25 of whom died this year around the world without assuring their security.

Particularly by targeting government corruption, brave journalists made raiding the public till more of a gamble than a birthright and angered many of the corrupt.

Whatever becomes of the Green Movement in the short term, millions of courageous Iranian protestors made clear to the world last summer that their country s centennial quest for a democracy is an idea whose time has come.

Only when the courage of millions of ordinary Ukrainians gathered in central Kyiv galvanized world opinion did the US and EU marshal the courage to stand up for an honest election result.

And New Yorkers have grown accustomed to reading about subway heroes brave souls who leap onto the tracks to rescue fallen commuters and then often slip away, uncomfortable with attention or credit.

A prominent American right wing commentator recently opined that any attempt to hold the torturers, and their masters in the Bush administration, accountable, would make a mockery of the efforts of the tough and brave Americans who guard us while we sleep.

Thouq from Kuwait posts the pictures of three gulf politicians, two from Kuwait and one from Bahrain, comments With all respect to all our brave women working in politics you certainly have power, but not style!

The Internet is transforming the way maps are made, enabling ordinary people dubbed citizen cartographers to work alongside intrepid adventurers and professional geographers.

The courageous soldiers from numerous States represented in this Hall who risked, and too often gave, their lives for goodness and compassion came face to face with the devastation wrought by man's potential for cruelty.

Sometimes we dissidents were not invited, but received an apology, and sometimes we were invited, but did not accept the invitation so as not to complicate the lives of our courageous diplomat friends.

Of course, without universal and coordinated international political, economic, and media support for these brave monks, all development in Burma may quickly be put back nearly 20 years.

If they do, Greece s brave, beleaguered citizens can at least take comfort in knowing that many people elsewhere will be spared the same unnecessary sacrifices.

Here I would like to report that we are proud of the courage and enthusiasm of the new recruits to our forces brave men and women who stand daily on the front line, despite horrific losses to their ranks from daily suicide attacks on patrols and recruiting centres.

I wanted to become a doctor like Paul Farmer or Rick Hodes, these kind of fearless men who go into places like Haiti or Ethiopia and work with AIDS patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis, or with children with disfiguring cancers.

Despite their strength in numbers however, Mousavi and Karroubi s excessive reliance on street protests is misguided. While their courageous supporters espouse tolerance and practice non violence, they are overwhelmed by armed government forces who are willing to kill and die to retain power.

The challenge is to commit to this approach, to scale up and to support to the hilt the brave people who take on the challenge of holding power to account. Otherwise, the Iraqi people are unlikely to get the security that, after so many years of suffering, they so desperately need.

Governmental brutality and intimidation can withstand the march of history for years, but not indefinitely. Whatever becomes of the Green Movement in the short term, millions of courageous Iranian protestors made clear to the world last summer that their country s centennial quest for a democracy is an idea whose time has come.

Only some stalwarts timidly point to the inflammatory question posed by Mack the Knife in Berthold Brecht s Threepenny Opera What is a bank robbery compared to the founding of a bank? What is a pick lock compared to a debenture share?

Another battle, over the Dadu River, is the core of the Long March legend 22 brave men supposedly overpowered a regiment of Nationalist troops guarding the chains of the Luding Bridge with machine guns, and opened the way for the Marchers.

Among them, too, were the choices of courageous protestors to go into the streets, to speak out or, as this particular protestor put it to me, not to have to explain to the next generation, We sat and waited.

Yet, caught in the sights of a gun barrel, nobody not even the brave men and women who camped in their hundreds of thousands in the snow before Ukraine s parliament knew with certainty whether those changes had wrenched Ukrainians from the grip of fear and apathy.

It is usually defined to mean everything we dislike from changes to our traditional way of life to loss of jobs. It is a brave politician who points out how much liberalizing trade and opening up markets have increased our overall prosperity.