The experts have been careful to say that it is possible that no building, no matter how well built or fireproofed, could have withstood the damage inflicted, and they have not speculated on whether an enormous number of lives -- particularly the many trapped on the upper floors -- might have been spared if the buildings had stood longer.
It also needed to withstand the damage from small stones flying from the track and hitting the wheel like a round of ammunition.
Engineers said the structure was built to withstand the damage it endured, but government officials also said it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to repair it -- money this nation can ill afford.
So the painting wasn't easy to decipher, but, on close inspection, not withstanding the damage, it still looked exceptionally beautiful, almost more so for being fragile and ghostly.
As time passes, house prices may recover, or banks' own accumulated profits may help them withstand the damage.
Medicaid is critical to ALL of our health care, and can not withstand the damage from per capita caps or phasing out the expansions under the ACA.
The ship screeches down the side of the tanker, but manages to withstand the damage, and heads straight into a marina.
The crystals used for X-ray crystallography must be large to withstand the damage caused by repeated exposure to the X-ray beam.
This up-regulation might be due to inherent properties of the cells, or alternatively, a selective pressure on the surviving clones to up-regulate proteins involved in DNA repair to withstand the damage.
In social stratification and in economy, the country reached such a degree of consolidation that it withstood, without serious damage, the political struggles that ravaged it in the late 12th century.
Note that many programs now encourage "flood proofing," that is, modifying the structure to help it withstand damage from the next flood.
