Washington stayed solvent and Mt. Vernon Inc. survived even though, as its owner wrote in 1769, "Many families are reduced, almost, if not quite, to penury and want, from the low ebb of their fortunes".
The resulting genetic instability might be too high to be compatible with organism survival, even though cells survive.
"Even though I survived Ebola, nobody wants to come near me.
Even though everyone survived, she said that Mr. Abdulmutallab was wrong to say no one was hurt.
One answer may be that even though Deutsche survived the financial crisis better than other investment banks, the aftertaste remains sour in Germany.
But even though he survived -- more intransigent than ever and suspicious of any opposition -- the United States was seen in the region as having backed a coup attempt.
Even though May survived a confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday, there were few clear indications of what other plans she might propose or whether she could hold on long enough to deliver any Brexit deal.
Thome wound up hitting one into the upper deck, which would have awed David Wells, who admires the moon shots he delivers, but Cone seemed merely sick about it, even though he survived the inning, and was the winning pitcher.
This outlook is essentially a bet that our current predicament is so different that the equity markets won't bounce back at all, even though they survived 1929, the Great Depression, 1987 and a major terrorist attack.
Analysts have questioned whether the bank, which makes most of its revenue outside Spain, should bolster capital even though it survived the global financial crisis and Spanish economic downturn without posting quarterly or annual losses.
