* For a martyr, the Pope has only to make a declaration of martyrdom, a certification that the venerable gave his or her life voluntarily as a witness for the faith and / or in an act of heroic charity for others.

For example, the battle at Xiang River “ which the official history of the Long March identifies as the longest and most heroic battle of the entire campaign, was in fact a major defeat for the Communists, with casualties and desertions reducing the First Army from 86, 000 to 30, 000 people .”< ref > Pye, Lucian.

For Beaglehole, Cook was a heroic figure who could do practically no wrong, and he is scathing about those contemporaries of Cook who ever ventured to criticise his hero, such as Alexander Dalrymple, the geographer, and Johann Reinhold Forster, who accompanied Cook on the second voyage.

For the classical Greeks, the Elysian fields was a paradisaical land of plenty where the heroic and righteous dead hoped to spend eternity.

For the English and Scots, Gawain remained a respectable and heroic figure.

He has earned positive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For ( 1995 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in Oliver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts ( 1997 ), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ), a conflicted priest in Quills ( 2000 ), a washed-up baseball player in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs ( 2002 ), the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater in the widely panned It's All About Love in 2003, a lovestruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village ( 2004 ), a disillusioned cameraman in Terry George's Hotel Rwanda ( 2004 ), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 ( 2004 ).

For example, the painting Lady Feng and the Bear, from ancient China, depicts the heroic act of a consort of the emperor placing herself between her husband and a rampaging bear.

For this heroic action the " Hussars of Junín " Regiment of the Light Horse was titled after Liberator of Perú with inscription on the regimental flag.

For example, the character of the old General, whose heroic qualities include a distinguished name, perseverance, integrity, compassion, and moral inner strength, is said to be " the soul and spirit of New England hardihood ".

For once we can show that gays do heroic things, not just all that caca about molesting children and hanging out in bathrooms.

For exceptionally heroic service in a position of great responsibility as commanding officer of the U. S. S.

For a long time, especially during the French Revolution, history painting often focused on depiction of the heroic male nude ; though this waned in the 19th century.

For thirty years the Arabs of Palestine waged a heroic but unequal fight against Britain.

For his heroic actions, he was awarded both the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross.

For the generation of national leaders coming of age in the 1820s and 1830s – men like Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun – " the founders " represented a heroic but anonymous abstraction whose long shadow fell across all followers and whose legendary accomplishments defied comparison.

For the heroic resistance of its citizens, Leningrad was the first city awarded the honorary title of Hero City in 1945.

: For heroic achievement as Executive Officer and Co-Approach Officer of a United States submarine during a successful and aggressive War Patrol in enemy Japanese-controlled waters ...

( For this reason, the Twelfth was called a " folk heroic epic ", as opposed to the Eleventh as a " folk music drama.

For example, the Magdeburger Ehrenmal ( Magdeburg cenotaph ) was ordered by the city of Magdeburg to be a memorial of World War I, and it was expected to show heroic German soldiers fighting for their glorious country.

For his heroic and professional actions, Sergeant McAulay was awarded the Victoria Cross.

For Hungarians, the 1552 campaign was a series of tragic losses and some heroic ( but pyrrhic ) victories, which entered folklore — most notably the fall of Drégely ( a small fort defended to the last man by just 146 men ), and the Siege of Eger.

For this heroic stand, the 81st Engineer Combat Battalion was later awarded the Distinguished Unit Citation for gallantry.

For instance, should surgeons attempt a heroic clinical rescue in a 99-year-old unconscious patient with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, even though survival with a good outcome would be so very unlikely as to warrant publication of the case as a clinical case report?

For his heroic act which likely prevented further death, the Canadian government several months later awarded Jalbert the Cross of Valour.

A heroic version of Sinestro appears in " Deep Cover For Batman ", with a yellow costume that resembles Hal Jordan's costume.

For discouragement, or the temptation to abandon our efforts, `` would show that one placed excessive trust in purely human means without thinking of the omnipotence of God, the irresistible efficacy of prayer, the action of Christ or the power of the Divine Spirit ''.

For the policy officer will know that action can almost never be secret and that in general the effectiveness of policy will be conditioned by the readiness of the country to sustain it.

For example, a criminal defendant may be convicted in state court, and lose on " direct appeal " to higher state appellate courts, and if unsuccessful, mount a " collateral " action such as filing for a writ of habeas corpus in the federal courts.

For example, Pepcid Complete includes calcium carbonate in its formulation, allowing it a faster onset of action.

For example, a good crosscourt sliced dropshot will use a hitting action that suggests a straight clear or smash, deceiving the opponent about both the power and direction of the shuttlecock.

For this reason, editors choose cutaway shots related to the main action, such as another action or object in the same location.

For this reason, some theorists have argued that consequentialist theories can only require agents to choose the best action in line with what they know about the situation.

For example, it may be meaningful to speak of an action as being good for someone as an individual but bad for them as a citizen of their town.

For example, the effects on the character of the agent or any other people involved in an action may be regarded as a relevant consequence.

For eleven weeks, between August and October 1979, industrial action forced Coronation Street and the whole of the ITV network ( apart from the Channel Islands ) off the air.

For example, thousands of shareholders of a public company may have losses too small to justify separate lawsuits, but a class action can be brought efficiently on behalf of all shareholders.

For example, high glycine concentration disrupts temperature and blood pressure control, and high CSF pH causes dizziness and syncope .. To use Davson's term, the CSF has a " sink action " by which the various substances formed in the nervous tissue during its metabolic activity diffuse rapidly into the CSF and are thus removed into the bloodstream as CSF is absorbed.

For pan-and polytheistic faiths this usually implies the direct action of one god or another on the course of human events.

For instance, in the sentence, " Cry me a river ," " me " is used to express the speaker's interest in the action.

" For some critics, the lyrics often seem dislocated from the action but the extent and significance of this is " a matter of scholarly debate.

For the name of the action, the suffix-ado will change a derived verb back to a noun: brosado ( a brushing ).

For subject matter jurisdiction, the claims in the case must either: ( 1 ) raise a Federal Question ( i. e., a cause of action or defense arising under the Constitution, a Federal statute, or the law of admiralty ); or have diversity of parties ( i. e., all of the defendants are from a different state than the Plaintiff ), and have an amount in controversy that exceeds a monetary threshold ( which changes from time to time, but is $ 75, 000 as of 2011 ).

For x in X, the vertex group consists of those ( g, x ) with gx = x, which is just the isotropy subgroup at x for the given action ( which is why vertex groups are also called isotropy groups ).

For a left action h acts first and is followed by g, while for a right action g acts first and is followed by h. From a right action a left action can be constructed by composing with the inverse operation on the group.

For example, corrugated iron sheet roofing will start to degrade within a few years despite the protective action of the zinc coating.

For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").