Lang was not sure that he did, but he dared ask only where he could play.
And in 1998, he dared to take the stand himself in an antitrust suit brought about by the government.
In practical terms, Mr Brown said little that David Cameron, the Tory leader, could not have espoused, had he dared to.
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He dared to imagine big goals for himself and his company.
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One of the most prominent and saddest cases is that of Venezuelan biologist and farmer, Franklin Brito, whose torment began in 2002 when he dared to submit a project to solve a problem in Sucre Municipality, Bolivar state.
Once, inside a building in Baghdad, Petraeus, then in his early fifties, challenged me to race him up the stairs. (He won.) Another time, he dared me to join him on a morning run in the Green Zone, accompanied by an armed guard.
Mr Khatami probably agrees but, so far, he has not dared go beyond tentative verbal overtures.
Similarly, although Mr Clinton was bold enough to remove the federal guarantee of welfare payments to the poor, he has not yet dared to question the guaranteed payments the better-off receive, nor to touch the preferential umbrella that shelters women and blacks.
Then he handpicked ten men and dared them to load sixteen and a half tons as fast as they could.
As a youngster, Jigme Singye Wangchuck stopped playing goalie in soccer when he realized that none of the players dared to knock one past the future King of Bhutan.
More pugnacious Democrats argue that the president could have got his way if he had held out longer, and dared the Republicans to allow taxes to rise across the board.
"If that had occurred to me I wouldn't have dared to do it, " he said.
Because of the scale of Ambani's operations, McDonald notes, no politician dared to move against him when he bent the rules.
"The reason I dared to suggest to pupils that he would be on my Christmas dinner list was that he suddenly became a little aggressive towards my black shoes, " he said.
In a few unforgettable scenes, he nails the image of a guy who hardly dared to countenance escape, and never left.
Nor was he unaware of the pain Armstrong inflicted upon those who dared to counter his narrative.
In New York, in the party's recent vote for a presidential candidate, union members who disliked Bill Bradley because he had once flirted with a voucher scheme (which dared to help parents to choose their children's schools) distributed more than 1m leaflets for Mr Gore.
"It's the first time that we have dared to come here in two years, " he said.
Kapil, who led India to glory in the 1983 World Cup, had dared the Indian board to sack him, insisting he was doing nothing wrong by promoting cricket.
In his appointments and pronouncements, Mr Obama keeps hinting that he is neither as radical nor as pure as his progressive supporters dared to hope.
When Mr Bush recently dared mention Mr Nour, Egyptian officials riposted with a blistering demand that he mind his own business.
Mr Berlusconi made clear to his followers last week that he would block a package of constitutional reforms, proposed by a parliamentary commission called the bicamerale, if the judiciary dared to convict him.
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