The men, inspired by his cool demeanor and heroic example, rose from their positions and followed him.

The revolt was cited later by labor organizers as an "heroic example of worker struggle."

But a president can't rule by heroic example alone; he must build and lead a team.

The narrator relates that in his death he left "a heroic example and a glorious memory," (verse 31).

In all times of stress the navigator's authority was absolute, for everything depended on his initiative and heroic example.

Even if they had only been pretend battles in his nursery, he knew that a duke must set a heroic example to his men.

She wanted to live up to the heroic example he'd set.

Such heroic examples, concluded Brougham, looking both backwards and forwards in 1822, permitted reformers to have confidence for the future.

Many individual, sometimes heroic, examples of schools and colleges of great merit do exist.

To give weight to his eloquent exhortations, he added that of heroic example.