Earlier fears that it too would buckle under the economic and bureaucratic burden of renovating its antiquated, Soviet-era infrastructure have not been realized.
Did it imagine that publishers would buckle?
Holyfield would buckle it around a waist that has barely expanded since he won his first professional title, in 1990.
"Even if you could do it, roads and buildings would buckle as the land rises".
The south bet that the north, seeing its oil revenue fizzle, would buckle first.At first South Sudan seemed likely to come off worse.
A year ago the Syriza leadership was convinced that if it rejected a new bailout, European lenders would buckle in the face of generalised financial and political unrest.
At first it seemed as if he could never prevail against the draconian, all-powerful League mandarins, and there were times when it seemed the will of his members would buckle against the weight of tradition.
The Italian astronomer Galileo calculated in 1638 that a tree taller than roughly 90 metres would buckle under its own weight when displaced slightly from the vertical (for example, by a breeze).
The crust is as strong as epoxy, and Mr. White piles it up with an abundance of toppings that would buckle an ordinary pie.
The political pressure would be enormous, and it's possible that a somewhat less rigid House would buckle.
