Sentence examples for endurance against from inspiring English sources

He had remarkable powers of endurance against the toughest physical torment.

Her endurance against dictatorship and steadfastness to her principles has brought comparisons to Nelson Mandela.

Legendary explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes said upon the completion of her journey: "I am very impressed by Sarah's incredible fortitude and endurance against great odds.

The significance of his personal account was recognised immediately, not only for the description of enlistment, training and service in Asia by an African soldier, but also as a remarkable story of endurance against great odds.

You would not know it, but that enormous 54-inch chest guards a pair of lungs that the Three Tenors would kill the Fat Lady for, a deep reservoir of aerobic strength that would be his weapon of endurance against his opponent, Aleksandr Karelin, the emperor of Greco-Roman wrestling.

Like Jason Reitman with "Up in the Air," which hit the festival circuit in September of last year and was well received but ultimately won no Oscars, Mr. Fincher will be facing a test of endurance against films that will not be widely seen for many weeks, like "King's Speech".

In a 2006 experiment, involving pumping sand-laden wastewater at a German sewage plant, a rubberized pump design clearly won an endurance test against pumps made from conventional hard chromium-alloy cast iron, and also against those using ceramic coatings.

The accounts, though they differ on certain details, are consistent in their portrayal of the trek as an endurance test against terrain and weather amid political upheaval.

In his book The Normal and the Pathological Georges Canguilhem speaks of the "physiological bravado" of athletes who embody the desire for "life to go beyond the codified biological constants" and into unknown territory – just how much suffering can one man take on a bike when weather and terrain and the limits of his endurance are against him?

About 29 predicted N-myristoylation sites were reported in SbASR1 gene of Salicornia brachiata (halophyte), which is known for enhanced salinity and drought endurance, as against two in rice (Tiwari et al. 2015).

So there's suspense, often accompanied by a fierce medical struggle, in which human ingenuity and endurance square off against a faceless villain.