Word: fearlessly
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...appeared that El Atrash, a feared and fearless chieftain, recently asked General Sarrail, High Commissioner of the Syrian Mandate, to remove an obnoxious tax collector. Not only did General Sarrail not remove the offending tax man, but he also declined to receive the delegation which El Atrash sent to him. Thereupon the latter swore that he would return with his trusty warriors...
Under the hypnotic taunts of Dovvid Pollock, cynic, Eli had to face the Apostles and refute, as became a fearless Jew scholar, the hated Christ. The Apostles made Eli Christ's man. In a Catholic woman's house where Eli, his lungs crushed by a lorry, his veins running morphine, hung in bandages, the Christ hung upon an alabaster crucifix. On the sixth day, the curtains of the niche opened to the sick man, Christ's wounds bled miraculously and Eli was recruited, another carpenter, to strengthen his brethren...
Born of terse North Englanders, serious as a youth, more so as a student, critical as a traveler, unabashed as a college reformer; a militant rector, fearless and hard-headed politician, prolific publicist, consistent evolutionary sociologist?William Graham Sumner comes vigorously to life in this friendly biography, the planning and writing of which deserve, quite as much as the subject, that old-fashioned adjective, "exemplary...
John Thomas Scopes: "Whether one agreed with his ideas and principles matters little at this time. Honor must be paid to Mr. Bryan for his fearless stand on issues that he thought were right...
...fighter. He Avas pure.He was uncompromising. He was a lonely leader. He saw concrete reforms and proceeded to them without other considerations. He inspired some. He angered others. He was loyal to ideals rather than to party. Few lieutenants were loyal to him through his career. He was fearless. He was true to his causes, and too sure of his convictions. He was too fierce a warrior to be a great general...