11.   Hope was gone from this room despite some brave words that tried to argue to the contrary.

12.   Hopkins conceded Trinidad fought a terrific fight, but since he has to fight him next, he also found some brave words to hype his own confrontation.

13.   Listening to his brave words, they must have imagined that Clinton lives on another planet, which, in a sense, he does.

14.   No one knows whether all this will amount to more than a few brave words.

15.   So much for the brave words of last summer.

16.   Such brave words would have been dismissed as fraudulent only a few months ago in a country that almost went spectacularly bust.

17.   They are brave words considering that De La Hoya is as undefeated as he is and has faced stiffer competition on the road to this inevitable confrontation.

18.   Those are brave words.

19.   Brave words from a man whose job may be in jeopardy.

20.   Brave words, all.