Sentence examples for effort to withstand from inspiring English sources

Profound memories too - our soldiers fighting together to liberate Europe; our joint effort to withstand and defeat the Soviet empire.

But its shares jumped 7 per cent following its decision to take 500,000 tonnes of the metal out of the market at a stroke – around 4 per cent of global supply – in its latest effort to withstand weak commodities prices.

The Dockers will look for Nat Fyfe to continue the form that saw him take out the AFL Players Association MVP award this week and both he and his fellow midfielders will have taken some confidence out of their effort to withstand a considerable fight from the Power when the two sides met in Round 23.

We intend to heavily utilize entertainment-oriented marketing in an effort to withstand the perpetual shift in trends and cater to as large a client base as possible.

Autophagy can be a mechanism of cell death; however, cancer cells also upregulate autophagy in an effort to withstand nutrient deprivation and potentially cytotoxic insults of drug treatment as a mechanism of chemoresistance.

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A suicide car bomber killed Somalia's security minister and more than a dozen others north of the capital on Thursday, witnesses and officials said, dealing a major setback to the government's efforts to withstand the Islamist insurgency seeking to topple it.

Along with these consecrations, Theobald's legal efforts enabled him to withstand the attempts of Bernard to turn St David's into an archbishopric, and when Bernard was succeeded by David fitzGerald in 1148, Theobald secured the new bishop's profession of obedience to Canterbury, thus ending the efforts to remove Wales from Canterbury's jurisdiction.

In the past, these arguments have enabled Pakistan to withstand efforts to confront the terrorists.

As Mr. Sharon said Monday night, "a democratic Israel will not be able to withstand" an effort "to control millions of Palestinians who double their presence each generation".

Today the dismal yields are improving, thanks to Wambugu's decade-long effort to genetically modify crops to withstand pests.

Whatton and his colleagues applied warm water to Huskisson's chest, feet and hands, and gave him warm cordials and further laudanum in an effort to calm him enough to withstand the shock of surgery.