In the military great courage is often referred to as heroism, while a lack of courage will brand you a coward.

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If you're a manager and let things fester, staffers will see you as a coward, an incompetent or perhaps both.

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But remember that once you go, you will be forever known as the coward who ran away, he added shrewdly.

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"You've got to put that being a coward and 'I don't want to get in nobody's business, '" he said.

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Under cross examination Stephen Coward QC, for Mr Huntley, suggested his client had said "as time goes on, you start fearing the worst, or words to that effect".

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