1.   He braves the threat of a government lawsuit in deciding to publish the secret Vietnam documents known as the Pentagon Papers.

2.   Sister Barbara braved death threats to help the villagers get clean water, midwife training and mental health treatment.

3.   Zhamalkhanov had braved the threats of neighbors to urge Abdulhajiyev to sit down with the Russian side.

4.   Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin, who braved death threats to return home and comfort her dying mother, fled the country and resumed her self-imposed exile in Sweden Monday.

5.   Norway even defied world opinion, faced protests and braved sanction threats so it could resume commercial whale hunting last year despite a global ban.

6.   Thousands of anti-government demonstrators braved the threat of arrest Friday to gather at the national mosque for a rally demanding political reforms.