Mettle in a sentence as a noun

Soon enough their code is gonna test it's mettle ut in the wild.

There are a lot of lean times and challenges that test everyone's mettle.

A true VP of Sales will take it as a personal affront if he doesn't have to prove his mettle through results.

You thrive in unstructured environments where you can test your mettle as a leader.

But no, this...this is the last straw, because now you can 'fight' her on your terms that won't hurt you too bad, show the world your 'mettle'.

Many startup companies have to prove their mettle to get an investor want to invest in them.

Look at all the points he makes about hiring a "talented" individual:* "...were asking whether you have the mettle to be part of an elite team.

Do they satisfy their clients to such an extent that they don't care about bloated costs or do the clients just not know?Edit: changed metal to mettle >_<" thanks

The appetite for 5 day matches seem to be on the wan, although any cricketer would tell you, the longest format of the game is where your mettle truly gets tested.

It might take moral mettle equal to or even greater than winning a global war against a genocidal madman bent on world domination to solve it.

Because there is no ********-institutionalized-social-proof ****, we are asked to take a test and prove our mettle before being hired for every job.

They've already proven that they are rather uniquely capable in banging out rockets and spacecraft that work at a tremendously low cost, but 2013 will prove their operational mettle, especially for commercial launches.

Mettle definitions

noun

the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball"

See also: heart nerve spunk