South Africa will hope to bounce back in the second Test, which gets under way on Friday in Durban, but Johnson warned Australia will again be on their mettle.
One afternoon, we left the kids to test their mettle on the resort's most challenging terrain and we leisurely skied back to our cabin door.
Europe's Ryder Cup captain Ian Woosnam has already warned that his star names will have to prove their mettle on the European Tour if they expect to be picked.
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Smaller conferences such as the Mountain West have advocated for a larger playoff 16 teams to teams with more modest funding and football histories a chance to prove their mettle on a national stage.
The Ryder Cup hero conquered the conventional bunker-bound Olazabal course in 21 under par, but knowing Poulter's reputation as a golfing trendsetter, he will probably be itching to test his mettle on Curley's new wacky creation at the first opportunity.
Villagers and travelling showpeople who live on land next to Mettle Hill are campaigning against the proposal.
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Recently he showed his mettle in Tax Court on behalf of the Estate of Kenneth Lay.
To test his mettle, he signed on as a trainer at Performance of a Lifetime, an organizational development firm started by two sometimes actors.
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Zhukov first showed his extraordinary mettle against Japanese forces on the Mongolian-Manchurian border during the summer of 1939, where the two sides were vying for dominance.
However, if a new trend is about to begin then investors will want to pounce on names that have already shown their mettle in the rough times.
After her parents' divorce, she moved to Paris with her mother which is where, as a teenager, she tested her mettle as a performer by busking on the streets.
But occasionally, senior teams also test their mettle against the hordes of young guns on public Internet servers even if it ends badly.
And he showed his mettle by asking Israel to stop building settlements on occupied land in effect, a down-payment to get peace talks started.
Monaco has won only once in their four meetings, when Nadal retired hurt during a hard-court event in 2007, but he showed his mettle against big-serving Canadian Milos Raonic on Saturday as he came from behind to triumph 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-4.
The booth wasn't equipped with internet access, so we couldn't test the panel's mettle with a trip to this very site, but images on the desktop and in Samsung's pre-loaded PowerPoint looked very bright and crisp.
He may also have to test his mettle against a problem Mr Greenspan never faced: price inflation brought on by dear oil.
To prove the mettle of the Tibor Everglades, he nailed one to a dock on the ocean to expose it to the maximum amount of salt and sand.
But it was on that day, when a lesser man would have compromised, that he showed his mettle.
That contempt springs from a keen nose for weakness, honed by the habits of dictatorship and based on an estimate -- so far unrefuted -- of Mr. Obama's mettle.
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