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Перевод: mettle

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1. The McLaggans were spoiling for a fight and I thought the lairds might have the mettle to retaliate."
2. We have to show our mettle."
3. Hawkins' qualities in this sort of role were deployed again ln a film that brought together the American director John Ford and former Ealing writer T. E. B. Clarke, Gideon's Day (1959, Gideon of Scotland Yard in US), where he plays a slightly muddled police officer who, in true English fashion, only reveals his mettle under pressure.
4. Variations in response put you on your mettle.
5. And the Baroque bustle of the finale shows both the soloist and the orhestra on their contrapuntal mettle - sharp, brisk, invigorating.
6. Bush's tax cut tests Democratic mettle
7. She later shows her mettle as a clog dancer abetted by four pretty girls, tries to set her cap at Father Thomas, but finally realises she cannot frustrate true love and dances out happily with the rest.
8. He used his influence to favour a contemporary of Keeton's, of comparable mettle, but more predictable in terms of the expectations of a liberal-conservative establishment.
9. If TV's investigative programme Rough Justice was to test its forensic mettle on Ayrshire meat Alan Rough would get off scot free.
10. If Labour wins on Thursday, it is likely that the markets will test the mettle of Mr Smith.
11. He puts the case for Xanthippe (aka Mrs Socrates), whose husband's "homosexual leanings, his absent-minded behaviour, his idleness and his love of proving everyone wrong would have endeared him to no wife of mettle."
12. The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle.
13. When they fight, the Khmer Rouge show their real mettle.