physical endurance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphysicalandendurance
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physical
adjective
uk/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/us/ˈfɪz.ɪ.kəl/
relating to ...
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endurance
noun[U]
uk/ɪnˈdʒʊə.rəns/us/ɪnˈdʊr.əns/
the ability to keep doing something difficult, unpleasant, or painful for a ...
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(Definition ofphysicalandendurancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At boarding school he proved an academic failure, to counter which disadvantage he worked relentlessly at body-building and feats ofphysicalendurance.
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Memoir 24 is a monument to hisphysicalenduranceand intellectual achievements.
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We should like to congratulate him upon hisphysicalendurance.
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It may not make such demands onphysicalendurance, but it does make much greater demands upon a man's nervous and spiritual resources.
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We have heard some of them this afternoon—impartiality, courage, patience, courtesy, vigilance,physicalendurance, and many more.
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Their manoeuvres involve dry training, firing blanks andphysicalendurancetests.
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I have taken part in many sports, including two which require physical courage of a kind andphysicalendurance, and which perhaps involve danger.
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It was a real test ofphysicalendurance.
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It was an immense effort ofphysicalendurance.
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It would be another feat of greatphysicalendurance.
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They have what are called "endeavour courses", bringing out initiative and some experience ofphysicalenduranceamong boys, and girls, too.
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We must create opportunities, be they to testphysicalenduranceor for dedicated service to help others.
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But there are limits to thephysicalenduranceof the people.
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You can find thousands and thousands of men in the country capable of morephysicalenduranceat forty-five years of age than at twenty-five years.
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But it is on the skill and knowledge andphysicalenduranceof those workers that so much still depends.
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Some may be of doubtfulphysicalendurance, but still they may be of service; you in the first case pass such men provisionally, and then they are sifted out.
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It does not matter so much how many hours you work because there is only a maximum amount ofphysicalendurancein a miner, and it has already been reached.
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In consequence, it is often found that once we have passed the witching hour of 12.30, things tend to resolve themselves into trials ofphysicalendurance.
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Slight in build, but has astonishingphysicalenduranceand excelled at all physical training exercises in basic.
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The concept of penal harm often induces additional elements ofphysicalendurance.
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