“Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”

“When I look back, I'm proud of where he's come from. He's overcome adversity; he struggled early on, but he was persistent.”

“We've had a lot of rain, but really no adverse winds. It's really winds out of the wrong direction or high winds that give us trouble.”

“The strong remittances and additional government spending this year should help mitigate the adverse impact of additional taxes and high oil prices on consumer spending.”

“Mote's function is doing the research, not advocating which (method) can or cannot be used but which is most effective, and which has adverse effects on the environment.”

“They really had to weather adversity [Sunday]. It's not easy to be scored upon, but how they responded to that challenge demonstrated the type of team that we are quickly becoming.”

“We think it's important that whatever strategy is employed by the Coalition doesn't adversely affect our fellow sheriffs in New Mexico, Arizona or California.”

Grit, which they defined as the tendency to work strenuously toward challenges, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress.

If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.

“The Red Cross continues to make a difference in Namibia not only to this area but in other areas which have been affected by the adverse rainfall pattern of 2006.”