Sentence examples for survive contact from inspiring English sources

But that theory may not survive contact with reality.

This purpose did not survive contact with reality.

How is this prediction going to survive contact with the real world?

"We've got very careful plans but we don't know how they'll survive contact with the enemy," he adds.

It remains to be seen whether this measured attitude will survive contact with the G.O.P.'s base.

When all is calm, both sides can work out how to fix whatever has been thrown, broken or hurt.Few plans, alas, survive contact with the enemy.

I doubt if any utopian plan has survived contact with the unpredictable reality of events.

There is a saying at the Pentagon that no plan survives contact with the enemy.

A hungry culture survived contact with UBS both sides say Pactual was run at arms' length.

"No plan survives contact with the enemy," said Crispin Blunt in Wednesday's Commons debate on Brexit.

As Helmuth von Moltke, a 19th-century German field-marshal, put it: "No plan survives contact with the enemy".