No timid lass, or simpering addlepate, but a woman with true mettle and depth.

It is, ultimately, not hardware or firepower or numbers that determines the true mettle of any military organization; it is discipline.

And, once again, Dallas is faced with the predicament of proving its true mettle under intense fire.

It is on these corners, with the car poised literally a centimeter or two away from disaster, that racers show their true mettle.

Perhaps a blindfold would test their true mettle.

Now Saturday's game against Kilmarnock will show the team's true mettle.

But then she showed her true mettle as a dramatic soprano; her singing was touching, sure of pitch and intelligently arched.

Daughter of a braveheart, Tarabai proved her true mettle for the next seven years.

I say we go back and show them the true mettle of Klingon warriors.

Formal receptions of this sort test the true mettle of the polished diplomat.